dead media A café that delivers your food through pneumatic tubes Gareth Branwyn

writing Tokyo's new Manuscript Writing Cafe demands customers make progress toward their writerly goals David Pescovitz

dogs are wonderful creatures The glorious Shiba Inu dog cafe in Japan Devin Nealy

design Malaysian café designed to look like a comic book page Andrea James

death Bangkok's Death Awareness Cafe designed to provoke patrons to ponder their demise David Pescovitz

Coffee Unique coffee drink features melting ball of cotton candy dripping into cup David Pescovitz

Business Site tracks significant U.S. layoffs Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Babbel can turn you into the friend who speaks French Boing Boing's Shop

Technology Stop hunching over your laptop in cafes Ellsworth Toohey

Reviews Logitech's Keys-To-Go 2 is a portable typing powerhouse Séamus Bellamy

maga Over 18,000 bots amplified Nicki Minaj's pro-Trump posts on X Ellsworth Toohey

Fail Whale When will Tesla give up on cars? Jason Weisberger

disgusting JD Vance openly racist, accepting of anti-semites Jason Weisberger

politics Starbucks announces more layoffs; "more than 100" cafes to close Rob Beschizza

music Meet eleven-year-old guitar prodigy Olly Pearson Jennifer Sandlin

pop-ups Surprise! Flashmob stuns crowd on Paris street with awesome version of Bohemian Rhapsody (video) Carla Sinclair

travel "Babies sleep in prams outside": Life in the world's five safest countries Ellsworth Toohey

Coffee Watch Turkish sand coffee made from start to finish — the most stunning brewing method ever Popkin

books McAtlas documents, analyzes, and celebrates the international multiformity of McDonald's Ruben Bolling

london Early illustration of 17th-century London's coffeehouse culture Popkin