utilities TinyWow is a free website with a huge selection of tools for working with PDFs, videos, images, and more Popkin

utilities This monster name generator spits out 10 random names for monsters every time you click it Popkin

utilities Hand Mirror – Mac menu bar app to pre-check your face before a teleconference Mark Frauenfelder

animation Excellent 1990 electrical safety video for kids starring VOLTON and hallucinatory CGI David Pescovitz

art Cool backgrounds Rob Beschizza

websites The simplest online note-taking website Rob Beschizza

utilities Woman's $284bn electric bill disputed Rob Beschizza

Business Rebate for IoT thermostat requires that you give permission to your utility to read "all data" Cory Doctorow

Weird Massive mysterious boom shook this town but nobody knows the source David Pescovitz

fires Video: Maui wildfires caused by downed powerlines Rob Beschizza

Technology Waymo, facing opposition against expansion in San Francisco, announces Austin as a new market Jennifer Sandlin

san francisco Car-free activists disabling self-driving cars with traffic cones in San Francisco Rusty Blazenhoff

law Judge rules pipeline company can enter and survey land without owners' permission Rob Beschizza

elon musk NDAs help Elon Musk's exploding rocket problem stay in the dark Elías Villoro

oops Road painters misspell school outside of school David Pescovitz

conspiracy theories QAnon influencer's "royal decree" backfires, leaving follower homeless Mark Frauenfelder

politics China claims U.S. has sent 10 of its own balloons over Rob Beschizza

Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Greene Marjorie Taylor Greene tells another lie about "Jewish space lasers" Mark Frauenfelder

crime Soft targets: FBI warned utilities that white supremacists were targeting energy infrastructure Rob Beschizza