prime numbers "Sexy primes" are prime numbers that differ by six Annie Rauwerda

movies Drive a Crooked Road: watch this great 1954 Film Noir with Mickey Rooney Mark Frauenfelder

music The Marshall Mathers LP is 22 years old Devin Nealy

memes The ultimate trolley problem crams in every other philosophical question it can Thom Dunn

art Can you spot all the perspective mistakes in this satirical engraving from 1754? Thom Dunn

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

humor Mocking the formula of late night talk shows Rusty Blazenhoff

comedy The surprisingly mathematical formula for writing late-night jokes Caroline Siede

puzzles RIP Raymond Smullyan, Puzzle-Creating Logician Mark Frauenfelder

trumpism 4chan's trumpist trolls are exploiting the Ghost Ship fire to narc out other DIY venues Cory Doctorow

law Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist Cory Doctorow

makers Ar ar humor: Generating jokes algorithmically with Wolfram Mathematica Cory Doctorow

offworld No girl wins: three ways women unlearn their love of video games Juliet Kahn

offworld How card games became cool again Kim Nguyen

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

The secret to success is working on the Right Thing Nicole Dieker

Homer's Last Theorem Simon Singh

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing