coronavirus Build your own makeshift "quarantine pool table" Rusty Blazenhoff

music Snooker legend Steve Davis masters the synthesizer Rob Beschizza

new orleans Haunted house formerly owned by Nick Cage up for sale again Natalie Dressed

NASA Hubble Space Telescope images "runaway Black Hole" Thom Dunn

airbnb Want to stay in the Sicilian palazzo featured in The White Lotus? It's yours for $6k per night on Airbnb Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Give your cat the gift of fully rechargeable entertainment with Cheerble Boing Boing's Shop

vote "Sand" among finalists for National Toy Hall of Fame Annie Rauwerda

sports Watch pool legends Minnesota Fats and Willie Mosconi in historic match Andrea James

sports Learn how to jump a ball in billiards Andrea James

Science Cormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific (or any kind of) paper David Pescovitz

Games Void Golf, an unexpectedly atmospheric physics game Rob Beschizza

events Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW Cory Doctorow

Kids Pool and bowling trick shot artists join forces for some mind-boggling tricks Andrea James

fake news Inside Kim Jong-Un's bunker, the plot to kidnap Prince George, and other fabrications in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

Kids Impressive CGI of pool balls made with open source software Andrea James

Games The 20 games you shouldn't miss in 2016 Brandon Boyer

tech The Digicue: a tiny electronic billiards trainer Michael Borys

math Donald Duck taught me how to play billiards Michael Borys

Gamesmanship and the strange little books that taught me how to win at everything Michael Borys