web theory Traverse City, MI braves the wrath of telcoms lobbyists, pushes ahead with municipal fiber network Cory Doctorow
music Forget fart sounds—Cecil Dill's masterfully squeezed his hands together to make beautiful music (video) David Pescovitz
Science "Cave of Bones" scientist Lee Berger talks about extinct apes that buried their dead and created art Ruben Bolling
design The No CSS Club celebrates websites with no stylesheets, let alone javascript. There should be a No HTML Club for websites that are pure text Rob Beschizza
LGBTQ+ Hair salon refuses service to transgender and queer patrons, suggests they go to "pet groomer" instead David Pescovitz
happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "The Million": a science fiction conspiracy novel of radically altered timescales Cory Doctorow
security 500,000 home routers have been infected with VPNFilter, malware that steals data and bricks devices Cory Doctorow
videos US smart traffic flow systems vulnerability would allow a single car to mess up intersection timing Cory Doctorow