music Hold music for the Death Star's customer service line Thom Dunn

star wars Le Creuset launches cast-iron Star Wars cookware Rusty Blazenhoff

star wars A piece of the original Death Star is on the auction block Rusty Blazenhoff

Business AT&T: it's not "forced arbitration" because no one forced you to have broadband Cory Doctorow

star wars Slightly bigger LEGO Death Star Jason Weisberger

star wars Rogue One's Director Krennic loves his Death Star in this delightful cartoon Caroline Siede

happy mutants Projecting leaked NSA docs on the side of AT&T's windowless NYC spy-center Cory Doctorow

star wars Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the final pre-release trailer David Pescovitz

deaths Judge dismisses the manslaughter charges against prison warden and five staffers who let inmate starve to death in solitary confinement Rob Beschizza

brazil Men fight over photo op at famous tourist spot Mark Frauenfelder

archaeology Man makes his own "Aztec Death Whistle" and tests it on his family with disturbing results Mark Frauenfelder

art Cartoonist Joe Matt has died Ruben Bolling

elaborate schemes Man arrested after faking his own death to avoid rape charges Carla Sinclair

comedy "Mouth Sounds" is an hour-long mashup / performance art tribute to "All-Star" Thom Dunn

tabloids A dagger in Prince Harry's heart and an Obama murder cover-up in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Bebergal

podcasts "The Immortals" is a podcast about Silicon Valley billionaires spending loads of money trying to stay young indefinitely Jennifer Sandlin

Science "Cave of Bones" scientist Lee Berger talks about extinct apes that buried their dead and created art Ruben Bolling

movies Viral spooky Twitter thread will soon be a new horror film, "Dear David" Jennifer Sandlin

music Watch Nathaniel Rateliff cover The Mountain Goats' "Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton" Jennifer Sandlin

climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn