jack black Inconceivable!: Celebs made a 'Princess Bride' home movie from their backyards Rusty Blazenhoff

gadgets Good picks for Windows laptops in the gaming 'n' creating sweet spot Rob Beschizza

iphones NYT stands behind claim Chinese women better at making iPhones because of their small, nimble fingers Rob Beschizza

google Google fined $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 by Russian court Rob Beschizza

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

twitter The Houthis are selling machine guns on Twitter. They even have blue checks. Rob Beschizza

Georgia's angriest peach Marjorie Taylor Green flips out when she sees Dr. Fauci on the House floor: "You should be prosecuted!" Carla Sinclair

mistakes Nicky Minaj learns what might happen when you smuggle drugs through airports Rob Beschizza

donald trump DeSantis dips below Christie in New Hampshire poll Mark Frauenfelder

art Is this Leonardo's painting of a younger Mona Lisa? David Pescovitz

Science How long would it take for a human brain to form in a void, complete with a memory of having existed? Mark Frauenfelder

ad 12 days of hummus heaven! Boing Boing

useful stuff Buy this mysterious relic that inspires inconceivable dread and abject horror to those that behold it Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Bill Gates and the Royal wiretap scandal in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Boing Boing Gadgets This $40 app splits songs into instrumentals and vocal tracks like music magic Boing Boing's Shop

language Noam Chomsky on Nim Chimpsky and the emergence of language Thom Dunn

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

tabloids Daily Mail fakes own historical front pages Rob Beschizza

tabloids Prince Harry begs forgiveness, the Queen shops Prince Andrew to the Feds, and Kirstie Alley's secret life, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Entertainment Chicago to host "As You Wish!" a Princess Bride pop-up theme-bar Jason Weisberger