music Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger played by Electric Toothbrushes Popkin

music Sweet Dreams played by an orchestra of electronic gadgets Rob Beschizza

star wars Anything can be an instrument: The Imperial March on a toaster Rusty Blazenhoff

theater Multimedia opera based on Philip K. Dick's VALIS coming to MIT Thom Dunn

music The Device Orchestra slays again Popkin

music  Don't Stop Me Now by Queen played on a couple of toothbrushes, credit card machines, typewriters, and a telephone Popkin

music Britney Spears' "Toxic" played by 8 electronic devices that you wouldn't expect to be used as musical instruments Popkin

music White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" perfectly performed by googly-eyed electric toothbrushes, typewriters, and a steam iron David Pescovitz

beethoven The mystery of Beethoven's metronome Miss Cellania

scams A 17-year-old was arrested for being the "mastermind" of the massive bitcoin Twitter hack Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Your dollar bills could kill you, and Prince Andrew tries to kill himself, in this week's dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

art Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a $95,000 Hippopotamine Sofa John Struan

security Warshipping: attack a target network by shipping a cellular-enabled wifi cracker to a company's mail-room Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Super Mario Bros. theme performed on credit card swipe machines Rob Beschizza

language Why swearing can be a good fucking way to sound convincing David Pescovitz

Technology What does it mean to be human in an age of machines? Institute for the Future

Copyfight EFF is suing the US government to invalidate the DMCA's DRM provisions Cory Doctorow

copyright Stop the Music Charles Duan