squashed What happens when a golf ball gets run over by a steamroller? Mark Frauenfelder

Food Watermelon truck overturns, to the delight of local wildlife Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Tell those bug bites to buzz off with this Bite Helper Itch Neutralizer Boing Boing's Shop

crimes Blood from squashed mosquito leads police to burglar David Pescovitz

alice stewart CNN's anti-abortion reporter gets crushed when her nonsense is challenged Carla Sinclair

tabloids Will Smith's slap and Angelina Jolie's feet in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

monopolies A Chrome extension let you bulk-unfollow everyone, until Facebook squashed it Clive Thompson

close calls Woman runs back and forth across train tracks and almost gets squashed Mark Frauenfelder

music Super Mario World soundtrack "restored" with original samples Rob Beschizza

science fiction Podcast: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 3) Cory Doctorow

alleged serial rapist Harvey Weinstein At least 3 women were kicked out of a bar for confronting Harvey Weinstein Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Even the rightsholders think Europe's Article 13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations Cory Doctorow

Business With the App Store monopoly case, the Supreme Court could reverse decades of frustrated antitrust enforcement Cory Doctorow

clickhole Bouncing and Blobbing Richard Kaufman

corruption Merciless reporting on the Chicago Police Department's extortion racket, & the senior officials who covered it up Cory Doctorow

uk Afterbrexit: Scotland trolls Theresa May by passing laws she has ridiculed Cory Doctorow

picks Elijah Wood says Hollywood has a major pedophile problem Xeni Jardin

movies World's first app-turned-movie reveals why those birds are so dadgum angry Carla Sinclair

psychology Why we enjoy stroking animals and popping bubblewrap Jamie Flook