documentaries Watch this wonderful and mellow short documentary about janitors (1966) David Pescovitz

retrocomputing 1983's Atari 1200XL: a super system doomed by a super price Rob Beschizza

Disney World's Haunted Mansion shut down after human remains spotted Allan Rose Hill

capitalism How private equity firms use public pension funds to screw other workers Thom Dunn

ad 12 days of hummus heaven! Boing Boing

drugs Middle-school teacher arrested for allegedly hiding meth in her hair scrunchie during school's "family fun night" David Pescovitz

films The next 007 will have to serve for a decade Devin Nealy

music Today is KRS-One's birthday Devin Nealy

britain Fulfilling an ancient prophecy, a raven has left the Tower of London Thom Dunn

Games Microsoft buys game giant Bethesda for $7.5bn Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Bipartisan legislation would force Big Tech to allow interoperability with small competitors Cory Doctorow

education #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago's teachers are back on strike Cory Doctorow

animals Watch a black bear break into a middle school David Pescovitz

privacy Australia wants to kill consent requirement in proposed data-sharing legislation, calls it "nuance" Cory Doctorow

Business Cisco's failure to heed whistleblower's warning about security defects in video surveillance software costs the company $8.6m in fines Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism LA school district prepares for strike with army of expensive scabs Cory Doctorow

Business Disney theme parks have a serious problem with cremain-scattering Cory Doctorow

security MyHeritage leaks data of 92 million who use the genealogy and family tree website Xeni Jardin

Business Online security is a disaster and the people who investigate it are being sued into silence Cory Doctorow

florida Red Cross "didn't show up" at Florida shelters during Irma Cory Doctorow