pirates of the caribbean Monkey from Pirates of the Caribbean bites makeup artist's ear Carla Sinclair

Hidden symbols in Jackson Pollock's abstract drip paintings Allan Rose Hill

Games Weird walkman-style cassette players that played Tetris and Blackjack Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

meat Novelty meat logs, you know, for kids Rusty Blazenhoff

music "The Beatles: Get Back" is a scrumptious feast Ferdinando Buscema

tabloids Sex monsters , #MeToo and Frankenstein horrors in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Games The secrets of the cancelled Secret of Monkey Island movie Rob Beschizza

COVID-19 Sinclair Broadcasting aired a follow-up to the debunked "Plandemic" conspiracy theory Thom Dunn

white supremacists The legal battle over those novelty Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs involves white supremacy and a 60s bondage film star Thom Dunn

florida Move over, Florida Man, and make room for feral Florida monkeys with herpes Thom Dunn

David Lynch David Lynch's bizarre new Netflix short is a perfect companion to this quinoa recipe Thom Dunn

check-belly sneetches Twitter CEO reveals the guy who issues coveted blue checkmarks, and the guy is not happy about it Mark Frauenfelder

Luke Perry's son is a professional wrestler known as "Jungle Boy" John Struan

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

fake news UFOs invade Arctic, John the Baptist's sandals, and worms from hell, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants 2017 Hugo nominees announced Cory Doctorow

roleplaying games What's new in the world of tabletop gaming? Gareth Branwyn

AI Two years later, Google solves 'racist algorithm' problem by purging 'gorilla' label from image classifier Cory Doctorow

security This is what was on Osama bin Laden's computers David Pescovitz

cops Quantifying the additional killings commited by cops when they get military weapons Cory Doctorow