hotels Crane converted into a hotel room David Pescovitz

Minnesota Lighthouse shines beacon for Gordon Lightfoot Rusty Blazenhoff

Games Make a pleasant little town in Six-Sided Streets Rob Beschizza

CIA CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets The Wayfarer combines style and function in a brilliant, yet attractive travel bag Boing Boing's Shop

Funny Watch the Cookie Monster's first appearance, in a 1967 IBM training film David Pescovitz

brazil Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels Cory Doctorow

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

privacy What the rest of the world doesn't know about Chinese AI Cory Doctorow

corruption Pentagon Inspector General reveals widespread retaliation against whistleblowers with impunity for the retaliators and the wrongdoers Cory Doctorow

eu After chaos, the EU's plan to censor the internet takes a huge step backwards Cory Doctorow

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

Kids Awe-inspiring timelapse of galaxies sparkling in the skies Andrea James

smart objects In this 1967 IBM training video, the Cookie Monster eats a talking computerized coffee machine Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Everyone Creates: a website celebrating the creativity that the internet has unlocked for millions of people Cory Doctorow

Science A lovely scientific appreciation of trees David Pescovitz

Delightful Creatures Small antelope is determined to attack man Mark Frauenfelder

Science Our Generation Ships Will Sink Kim Stanley Robinson