fashion This vintage couture wedding dress looks like a Russian nesting doll, or a tampon Heather Johanssen
walt whitman Happy Easter! Read most every surviving scrap of paper Walt Whitman wrote on in the Whitman Sampler Natalie Dressed
Robert Anton Wilson "A Ugandan hunter is tranquilizing gorillas and dressing them in clown suits" — the origins of a crazy story that lives on Mark Frauenfelder
rowling J.K. Rowling claims Nazis didn't burn trans books, issues lawsuit threat when called a holocaust denier Rob Beschizza
tabloids Scientology doomed, Royal family doomed, and Island of the Damned in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
MAGA messaging "Welcome to the end of democracy" says pro-Trump speaker on stage at CPAC (video) Carla Sinclair
Boing Boing Shop Take a closer look at well, anything, with this high-def monocular telescope! Boing Boing's Shop
computers Read the Electronic Frontier Foundation's guide to using the Internet in 1994 Rob Beschizza
north korea North Korea sentences two teens to 12 years of hard labor for watching K-Dramas (video) Mark Frauenfelder
medicine Long COVID "extremely widespread" and "one of the biggest global health pandemics" Jennifer Sandlin
Cryptozoology Virginia police respond to rash of Bigfoot sightings and video evidence (video) David Pescovitz
delightful creatures Doggo looks high and low for owner, who is right there — in Xmas tree costume (video) Carla Sinclair
russia Russia is repurposing purchased Cameo videos from US celebrities to make them seem to be disparaging Ukraine's leader Ruben Bolling