Business Facebook owns Netscape Cory Doctorow

music Three national corporations control nearly all of San Francisco's live music Cory Doctorow

politics Target's bleakly invisible Pride Month fashions suggest the wrong kind of closet Rob Beschizza

Coffee I've been making my pour-over coffee with a stainless steel filter Jason Weisberger

music This new drum machine only makes sick medieval beats Thom Dunn

law Vermont man charged with drunk driving in Canada thought he was in U.S. Rob Beschizza

twitter Twitter users will no longer be able to hide their blue checks Rob Beschizza

fun "This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs guestbook for 24 hours Rob Beschizza

brazil Men fight over photo op at famous tourist spot Mark Frauenfelder

gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza

british Saying "Brits" is derogatory, according to Scottish conservatives Thom Dunn

events Maker Faire is headed back to the Bay Area in 2023! Mark Frauenfelder

github Sweary source code comments a sign of competence Rob Beschizza

publishing New version of The Hobbit will include 50+ sketches by JRR Tolkien Thom Dunn

New lunar landers, spacesuits, electric airplanes, space medicine and other reasons NASA is stoked for 2023 David Pescovitz

politics Site documents Republican "sexual predators, abusers, and enablers" Jennifer Sandlin

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Japanese cinema Free online event: a conversation with "We Are Little Zombies" director Makoto Nagahisa Mark Frauenfelder

food poisoning Two dead after eating raw oysters from Louisiana Jennifer Sandlin