corruption DEA bought zero-day exploits from disgraced cyber-arms dealer Hacking Team Cory Doctorow

mistakes Implementing a "disturbingly modern" MS-DOS BBS Rob Beschizza

Weird Neighbor accused of stealing skeleton in window with middle finger raised offensively Xeni Jardin

handsy hockenberry Disgraced radio host publishes 7000-word pity piece about himself in Harper's Rob Beschizza

TV History An archive of every LGBTQ character in 20th century American TV History Caroline Siede

genetics The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018) Rob Reid

media theory The "dead parent test" for effective movie dialogue Mark Frauenfelder

books Steven Pinker's list of the 58 most-abused English words and phrases Cory Doctorow