riddles wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma Sandwich customer puzzled by handwritten message on wrapper Mark Frauenfelder

law Man stabbed to death in debate over whether chicken or egg came first Rob Beschizza

Funny Image of farting man from 1770 childrens book Popkin

Are you playing Elden Ring, or are you just an academic? Grant St. Clair

tabletop gaming What's new in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

travel Check out this Winnie the Pooh-themed corn maze Jennifer Sandlin

kitchen Cast iron skillets: seasoned vs enameled Jason Weisberger

useful stuff Excellent cheap puzzle book: The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations Mark Frauenfelder

books Ready Player Two: read an interview with Ernest Cline and listen to his soundtrack for the book David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Flip your flapjacks & omelets in style with this twin-skillet design Boing Boing's Shop

star wars Coca-Cola bottles with built-in light-up lightsabers John Struan

puzzles Can you solve the two-fuse puzzle? Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Here's your chance to buy the Kindle edition of Dan Simmon's essential science fiction novel Hyperion Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Brain-aching list of counterintuitive probability riddles Cory Doctorow

Games The new Portal is a bridge-building puzzle game, and it looks AMAZING Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Puzzles that teach the fundamentals of crypto's essential, elusive zero-knowledge proofs Cory Doctorow

psychology The strange, mutating story of "willpower" and what we think it might be as of right now Cory Doctorow

1990s The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer Jess Kimble Leslie

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

Puzzle Books The Moscow Puzzles, Russia's most popular puzzle book Jason Weisberger