adorable animals If you have dogs, you must pay the cheese tax Jennifer Sandlin

music Cozy up with Puppy Songs' latest, "Heated Blanket" Jennifer Sandlin

Funny Watch these Borzoi dogs make bizarre sounds with their bendy snouts Jennifer Sandlin

A man sacrificed sleep for 25 years to create history's most obsessive diary Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment "Chainsaw Jerry" reveals untold stories from Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie 50 years later Mark Cerulli

music I'm excited that there's now a full-length "Puppy Songs" album! Jennifer Sandlin

Delightful Creatures The sad, strange story of a taxidermied elephant Natalie Dressed

new york Philadelphia Cream Cheese exploits tax loophole with new bagel Grant St. Clair

tabloids The tabloids use news stories to mirror and amplify their own Weltanschauung Peter Sheridan

COVID-19 Cuba's efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 is breaking its fragile economy Maddie Lee

nevermore Fast food gives crows higher cholesterol, too Clive Thompson

christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow

social malaise This 70-year-old book about racist mass movements perfectly describes Trumpism Mark Frauenfelder

drinks This Amazing Crazy "Tiny" Drink is a Meal for Two @nerdvana Richard Kaufman

Food This is the world's largest deliverable pizza Rusty Blazenhoff

picks Fyre festival organizers hit with $100 million fraud and breach of contract lawsuit Mark Frauenfelder

donald trump If you vote for Trump, then screw you Mark Frauenfelder

books Reminder: Neal Stephenson predicted Donald Trump in 1994 Cory Doctorow

law Nine key legal cases about robots, and the messy legal future of robotic devices Cory Doctorow

Business Trump Casinos lost millions every single year that Donald Trump ran it (but he's still rich) Cory Doctorow