No Morris Day and Young MC nope out of Trump-linked festival Jason Weisberger

No No is a complete sentence, the t-shirt Rusty Blazenhoff

cartoons Bob Mankoff, New Yorker's cartoon editor, is retiring Andrea James

Boing Boing Gadgets Get 10TB of cloud storage for life for $270 during Deal Days Boing Boing's Shop

Games Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster Grant St. Clair

movies Bob Odenkirk stars in straight-faced remake of The Room Grant St. Clair

Games Grand Theft Auto 6 opens pre-orders, reveals cover art Grant St. Clair

Boing Boing Gadgets Deal Days has a 15-device VPN for less than $30 Boing Boing's Shop

mechanical keyboards Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard Rob Beschizza

websites The obscure airfields of America Rob Beschizza

Science A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it Ellsworth Toohey

History Japan's greatest sword was surrendered to a US sergeant in 1946. Nobody knows where it is. Ellsworth Toohey

Science In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon. Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1974, Turkish forces fenced off a Cyprus beach resort. It's still empty. Ellsworth Toohey

History Sid Caesar built the writers' room that taught Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen how to be funny Ellsworth Toohey

Science Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning Ellsworth Toohey

politics "Donald Dump" depicts Trump with sludge oozing out of his mouth Jennifer Sandlin

animal ASMR This giant anteater uses his dancing tongue to keep cool in the summer's sweltering heat Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

Science Sally Ride flew to space 43 years ago today. She still has the best astronaut name. Séamus Bellamy