Lego is cool, whether you’re 3, 13, 30 or even 90 and nothing can give you that feeling of being a kid again better. Now you can get that feeling from anywhere you can carry your laptop, with the Lego Digital Designer, a brilliant digital twist on playing with colored little square plastic bricks. Version 2 has recently been released, with an improved building experience, over 760 brick types and a completely redesigned user interface.

Read more: Lego Digital Designer

Yeah who knew!? We’d like to wish old-schoolers, mid-schoolers and new schoolers alike a happy Go Skateboarding Day, where Today, June 21st, 2008, skaters old and young are encouraged to go out and skate. Whether it be street or vert, or merely online with S.K.A.T.E, we hope all of you are having a great day on your boards.

Taking sci-fi to the next level, Other Timelines puts writers in control of history, presenting an alternative view of history, where specific historical events never happened or turned out a little bit different than in our history books. Through collaborative timelines, Such as What if George Washington were betrayed and Self-replicating nanobots, prepare to be taken on a weird adventure through what-ifs and what-thas.

Read more: This day in alternate history

Call it karma for being home to one of the most disturbing corporate conspiracies of the 20th century, but it seems Detroit is getting hit hard by a wave of economic depression. Sadly, scores of residents have left since the 1960s, residential and commercial real estate prices are soon to be counted in pennies and the over-filled prison system is taxing an already over-burdened local government.

Though major campaigns are underway to improve Detroit’s image and local economy with waterfront condos (that few can afford) and tourism-related projects, much of Detroit’s beautiful art deco architecture is left vacant and begging for people to poke around inside. Which is exactly what our urban exploring Detroitians are doing daily over at Forgotten Detroit, an amazing collection of photographs, videos and information on some of Detroit’s absolutely stunning pre-depression architecture. Absolute treasures are sitting vacant, waiting to be torn down as “progress” sweeps the city, meaning they would be replaced with the city’s 100th Best Buy or Wal-Mart.

Seeing such beautiful landmarks as the United Artists Theater of Detroit above, sitting vacant, vandalized and abused is almost painful. But the beauty of seeing this once shining, mighty example of better times and certainly better architecture, sitting abandoned is awe-inspiring. If only all modern cities could still carry such class in their architecture, life would be a dream.

Explore: Forgotten Detroit