photography Geneva, NY lawyer finds late 19th-century photo studio and Susan B. Anthony photos in a hidden attic Gareth Branwyn

wasps Wasp nest found in attic Rob Beschizza

History New 9/11 WTC collapse footage emerges after 23 years Mark Frauenfelder

art A Renaissance painting found in an elderly woman's home Devin Nealy

recycling New York City recycling facilities receive 1,200 bowling balls each year Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets 30 deals on air conditioners, fans, purifiers, and more to help prepare for record heat this summer Boing Boing's Shop

happy mutants Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance Cory Doctorow

Business Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow

happy mutants David Byrne's Luaka Bop label is releasing a compilation of "secular gospel" from the 1970s, with liner notes by Jonathan Lethem Cory Doctorow

art New book of Mitch O'Connell tattoos Mark Frauenfelder

books Gay Talese learns the subject of his new book is a liar, disavows the book UPDATED Cory Doctorow

music Hear The National, War on Drugs, Jenny Lewis, and others play the Grateful Dead David Pescovitz

interviews Making the Book Talismanic: An Interview with Robert Ansell Avi Solomon