music Tower Records store on LA's Sunset Strip returns to life, one night only Xeni Jardin

music A statistical analysis of why people hate post-grunge band Nickelback Rob Beschizza

Science New research finds evidence that sea anemones track the sun Jennifer Sandlin

apple Mastodon available for Apple II Rob Beschizza

What Elton John, Brad Pitt and Joe Biden have in common, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books "Where Are the Elephants?" is Leon Rosselson's memoir Elías Villoro

television Whose Line is it Anyway is coming to an end Devin Nealy

Boing Boing Gadgets These beginner watercolor painting courses can turn you into a regular old Claude Monet Boing Boing's Shop

psychological experiments Watch people trick themselves in a choice blindness experiment Mark Frauenfelder

camping Artist converts utility van into tiny house Gareth Branwyn

apps Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz

Jesus Merry Christmas, someone stole Jesus's foreskin Thom Dunn

videos Today: Take part in an interactive online screening of "The Crossing" for Human Rights Day Cory Doctorow

happy mutants San Diego's wonderful Mysterious Galaxy Books has lost its lease, needs a buyer ASAP to stay afloat Cory Doctorow

mcdonalds Online customer service agents are watching what you type Séamus Bellamy

media An astoundingly odd cinematic cigarette commercial from 1977 David Pescovitz

class war New York surpasses Brexit London as the world's second-hottest luxury property market Cory Doctorow

television Mister Rogers' Drunk History Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Roomba walks back plan to sell maps of your house to Amazon and Google Cory Doctorow

record stores If you're too young to remember the magic of Tower Records, here's what you missed Ben Marks