History The cabinet card fad saw 19th-century women dressing in ridiculous costumes Andrea James

canada Canada Post apologizes for stamps bearing decapitated head of prime minister John Macdonald statue David Pescovitz

tabletop games Solo roleplaying a Thousand Year Old Vampire Gareth Branwyn

photographs The chemist who made big bucks hoaxing ghost photos David Pescovitz

Say goodbye to Uncle Ben, Mrs. Buttersworth, and the Cream of Wheat chef David Pescovitz

Audio Ghost boxes, psycho-phones, and other devices for listening to spirits David Pescovitz

Gadgets These moving, 3D wooden mechanical models are as gorgeous as they are crazy cool Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets 19th century mousetrap not messing around Rob Beschizza

rona The great wave Rob Beschizza

futility closet In 1828, Ann Marten began to have disturbing dreams about her missing stepdaughter's whereabouts Futility Closet

Science CLIMATE: 2019 was hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA report Xeni Jardin

Business Newton's Principia Mathematica, George Washington's journal: archivist stole $8m worth of rare books from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library Cory Doctorow

Weird Photo proof: Greta Thunberg is a time traveler who has come here to save us from ourselves David Pescovitz

occult Weird "witch bottle" found in former pub's chimney David Pescovitz

books Publisher cans Naomi Wolf book about homosexuality in Victorian England Rob Beschizza

podcasts Podcast: Why do people believe the Earth is flat? Cory Doctorow

futility closet In the 1800s, Britain grew a thousand-mile hedge across India Futility Closet

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

History Old folks born in the 19th century say hello from 1934 Seamus Bellamy