music Madonna's "Justify My Love" with only Lenny Kravitz's backing vocals is excellent mutant pop David Pescovitz
dolls The Doll Garden of Sabile is a peculiar garden in Sabile, Latvia, where you can find hundreds of Life-size straw dolls on display Popkin
south korea This fuzzy dream pop version of Blondie's "Dreaming" is my new favorite cover Jennifer Sandlin
Entertainment Tron Lightcycle/Run is the newest, coolest, and most oddly punctuated ride at Disney World Ruben Bolling
tik tok Right-wing weirdos eager to buy Tik Tok after House votes to force Chinese owners to sell it Rob Beschizza
3-D scanned images OpenVertebrate is a massive database of 3-D scanned images of 13,000 (and counting!) vertebrate specimens Jennifer Sandlin
interview Interview with Case Esparros, independent filmmaker and director of "The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost" Natalie Dressed
restaurants Follow the Random Restaurant Bot for random restaurants from around the world Ruben Bolling
social media "Who has seen a heavily pregnant woman since 2021?" — Naomi Wolf suggests that no one is giving birth Mark Frauenfelder
top talent RayonBase's fusion of synth-pop, country, alternative, rock, and jazz blows my mind Jennifer Sandlin
1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin
vanity plates DEZNUUTZ, 2HI, VENMO, and 3,000 other vanity license plates rejected by New York's DMV David Pescovitz
books Excerpts from"Mary Tyler MooreHawk," Dave Baker's post-modern mystery and pop culture love letter Gareth Branwyn
autobiographies NY Mayor Adams disputes his own memoir over schoolyard gun incident — "What book is this?" Mark Frauenfelder