youtube Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU's new Copyright Directive (adios, Despacito!) Cory Doctorow

toys Robie the coin-eating robot: A nostalgic look at Radio Shack's mechanical bank Popkin

gadgets Minimalist Light Phone III gets an OLED display, camera and industrial new look Rob Beschizza

cop impersonators Couple chased by car with flashing blue lights decide not to pull over: "That's not a cop!" (video) Carla Sinclair

Weird Freaky orb with mouth caught on video over lake, resembles Pac-Man Allan Rose Hill

monotonous conmen Donald Trump is mid-speech when hundreds of bored rally-goers exit the gates (video) Carla Sinclair

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architecture Turkmenistan's eccentric dictator built a self-glorifying $12m phallic marble monstrosity called the "Neutrality Monument" Mark Frauenfelder

Ohio man beaten up in Florida resort Rob Beschizza

gadgets Feds target Amazon and other online retailers selling wireless signal jammers Rob Beschizza

prisons Tear-down of a prison laptop David Pescovitz

marijuana Marijuana farmer suing police for illegal raid and leaving huge pizza party mess behind David Pescovitz

music Listen to Sub-Radio's parody of Prince's "Kiss": "I just want to say shut up to your kids" Jennifer Sandlin

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electronics Far-out commercial for Sharp electronics from 1978 tape of Star Wars Holiday Special (video) David Pescovitz

werner herzog The curious history of the dancing chicken in Werner Herzog's 1977 film Stroszek Jennifer Sandlin

myth busting Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin

music Casey Kasem's American Top 40 as a time machine Ruben Bolling

radio AM radio faces uncertain road ahead as automakers nix it from the dashboard Rusty Blazenhoff

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