new york Prisoners' headstones in New York now humanized with names, not just ID numbers Rusty Blazenhoff

inventor Pringles inventor was buried in a Pringles can Popkin

History This 18th century satirist mocked the absurdities of human behavior Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Creepy video of wild turkeys trotting in circles around a gravestone over and over and over Allan Rose Hill

data Mysterious QR codes added to 1,000 graves in Munich Rob Beschizza

History Whatever happened to Ambrose Bierce? Natalie Dressed

Lemonade from lemons 7-year-old starts a lemonade stand to bury her mother Thom Dunn

websites Anonymous chat site Omegle closes down Rob Beschizza

Nice people Man finds his life passion in cleaning and restoring gravestones Jennifer Sandlin

Billy Bragg Billy Bragg tells a ghost story Jennifer Sandlin

Cooking Rosemary Grant makes recipes she finds on gravestones Popkin

epitaphs The Paste Eater's Grave Popkin

beer People upset that church held fundraiser beer festival in its graveyard David Pescovitz

music Watch 18-year-old Phil Spector perform "To Know Him is to Love Him" on TV Mark Frauenfelder

censorship Church of England refuses to allow foreign language on a gravestone, calling it a "political statement" Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow

Journalism The problem with all the mistakes in Jill Abramson's book on journalism is you'll never know who wrote them Rob Beschizza

politics John Oliver mocks Rudy Giuliani's freakshow performance as Trump's lawyer Rob Beschizza

surveillance Property of the People sues the FBI for details on "Gravestone," its reassuringly named secret mass-surveillance tool Cory Doctorow

architecture The Tombstone House was built with 2200 discarded gravestones Rusty Blazenhoff