God bless the Internet: Without it, we probably wouldn’t have LOLcats, Star Wars Kid, Gangnam Style or — this just in — a LEGO-fied version of the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer.
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LEGOs (No Really, LEGOs) Behind West Virginia Highway Shutdown
It looks like the remnants of a LEGO video game smashup superimposed over dreary reality: a major debris field of tiny plastic LEGO bricks strewn across a West Virginia highway, shutting it down and causing serious delays.
Is This LEGO Star Wars Toy Racist?
Racism is sadly alive and well in the world, but in a LEGO Star Wars toy set?
The 8 Best LEGO Reenactments
Sure, you loved watching an inch-tall Felix Baumgartner reenact his daredevil leap from 125,000 feet. But there’s plenty of other brilliant LEGO reenactments out there.
The Brick Bible: Turning Jesus Stories into Lego Scenes
Brendan Powell Smith says he was “shocked” by what he read in the Bible as a philosophy and theology student in his twenties. And as the most popular book in the world, he couldn’t fathom that most people weren’t aware of …
Reading While Eating for July 9: Fight Club
Today’s links feature food fights, a Governor’s boardwalk fight, and a fight to preserve hedgehogs.
Reading While Eating for June 11: Start Your Engines
The must-read links for your Monday lunch break: NPH wins the Tonys, but who won ‘Mad Men’?
Lego Theft: Silicon Valley Exec Accused of Stealing $30,000 Worth of Toys
SAP executive Thomas Langenbach allegedly resold the Lego sets on eBay out of his $2 million, Lego-filled home.
Reading While Eating for May 2: Working for a Living
In today’s lunchtime links: An inspirational football player gets a job, a Texan with a thing for electric fences campaigns for a new one and TIME investigates the end of the unpaid internship.
LEGO for Girls: Have They Stooped to Stereotype?
After years of catering to boys, the famous Danish toymaker is now trying to court the other 50% of the world’s children.
Another Toy Story: Get Ready for a Lego Movie
Talk about a blockbuster. (Sorry.)
Mysterious Giant Lego Man Held in Police Custody
It doesn’t matter that it’s an eight-foot-tall Lego man that washed up a beach one day. All lost-and-found property is treated equally in Sarasota, Fla.