happy mutants Crowdfunding powerful open hardware that is truly open and respectful of your rights Cory Doctorow

science fiction Get the free online edition of the classic 1986 cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades Mark Frauenfelder

Tom The Dancing Bug Tom the Dancing Bug: One Day in the Town Square Ruben Bolling

theater Multimedia opera based on Philip K. Dick's VALIS coming to MIT Thom Dunn

Comics Libresse plagiarizes cartoonist Gemma Correll in international ad campaign Ruben Bolling

DRONES Arms manufacturer sponsors new opera about the horrors of drone warfare at the Kennedy Center Thom Dunn

Games Game of Monopoly leads to sword fight Rob Beschizza

asu Lucha Libre's history and art Bob Knetzger

Time Travel "La Jetée," the famous French time travel short film, is being adapted into a new opera Thom Dunn

events Lucha VaVoom, a glam slam wrestling show in downtown LA celebrates 20 years Lee Keeler

marvel Marvel and AAA wrestling are teaming up for Lucha show Devin Nealy

Opera Bizarre Black Lodge is a captivating punk pageant Jason Weisberger

artists Flea Market Follies: Hunting for Kitsch with Mitch O'Connell Lee Keeler

late stage capitalism World's thinnest mechanical watch costs $1,888,000 and has a picture of a horsey Mark Frauenfelder

bbc Peaky Blinders creator pitches new drama about ska, BBC picks it up Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Anti-vaxxers now stupidly gargling iodine and using it as eye drops to "fight off" COVID-19 David Pescovitz

COVID-19 Watch these Lucha Libre wrestlers mask the unmasked Jason Weisberger

COVID-19 Watch lucha libre wrestlers enforce mask rules in Mexico City David Pescovitz

Games "Anarch", a new, public-domain Doom-like game coded from scratch in <256K Clive Thompson

movies Watch the trailer for "elevated" slasher horror film, Random Acts of Violence Mark Frauenfelder