art Lovely photocopier art made with a desktop scanner and a lightbulb David Pescovitz

Technology Russian passport photocopies look like analog horror nightmares Ellsworth Toohey

In 1964, a dad's photo of his daughter captured a figure in a spacesuit — a mystery that still baffles Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Canadian authorities hope that releasing low-quality photocopy of Yukon UFO photo will make people less interested in seeing the real thing Rob Beschizza

gadgets Taiwan used to make unlicensed Apple II clones with names like The Banana Rob Beschizza

libraries Copyright warning found by library photocopiers deemed misleading Rob Beschizza

books "Who Would Believe a Prisoner?" chronicles America's first separate prison for women Elías Villoro

patent trolls SparkFun's CEO vs. patent troll Mark Frauenfelder

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beep-beep now you bastard Chuck Jones' 9 rules for writing Road Runner stories Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The Church of the Subgenius's Salvation Pack is the best $35 I ever spent Cory Doctorow

foia The strangest FOIA redactions (and FOIA releases) MuckRock has seen over the years JPat Brown

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roleplaying games What's new in the world of tabletop gaming? Gareth Branwyn

security North Korean rulers attempted to enter the west using Brazilian passports Séamus Bellamy

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printers Reality Winner was outed by invisible dot patterns added by printers (among other things) Rob Beschizza

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