animation Weird Al's 1999 'Your Horoscope for Today' gets its first music video and it's a beautiful animation Rusty Blazenhoff
crime Oregon newspaper lays off staff and ends print edition after embezzler drains funds Rob Beschizza
tabletop gaming Revisiting the "Satanic panic" of the 1980s in Stranger Things season 4 Gareth Branwyn
meanwhile on tiktok Is it #BonesDay? A lazy pug named "Noodles" forecasts the day's mood Annie Rauwerda
toilets New magazine all about restrooms publishes a growing list of bathroom codes in NYC and beyond David Pescovitz
security It's dismayingly easy to make an app that turns a smart-speaker into a password-stealing listening device and sneak it past the manufacturer's security checks Cory Doctorow
fake news JFK's killer, Michael Jackson's ghost, and Meghan Markle's halibut, in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan
fake news Where ISIS will strike next, FBI grills Malia Obama, and Prince Charles is a Killer, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
timemachine This Day in Blogging History: How is a $12 phone possible? UK wine-sellers declare that wine has horoscopes; Burger King Subservient Chicken Cory Doctorow
Science UK wine-sellers declare that wine has horoscopes, advise wine-drinkers to avoid certain moon-days Cory Doctorow