amish Police seek drivers of abandoned Amish buggy equipped with loud stereo and Michelob Ultra Jason Weisberger

uber Michigan man offers "Amish Uber" rides in his horse & buggy Rusty Blazenhoff

race Man wearing full Amish garb clocks great time in marathon David Pescovitz

occupy Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an abandoned police station Thom Dunn

plumbing Drain Addict is a popular YouTube channel about a professional drain unclogger's successes Mark Frauenfelder

robots Very weird faceless robot baby for elderly people David Pescovitz

star wars Compare the fat joke in the Black Widow trailer with Daisy Ridley saying she was "taking in no nutrients" John Struan

jellicle cats come one come all I love TS Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Weber but the 'Cats' trailer scares me Jason Weisberger

racism Vandals reportedly spray-painted apology for racist graffiti David Pescovitz

comfort food Watch – cheese infested with live maggots is a delicacy Mark Frauenfelder

cysts Watch doctor extract humongous 20-year-old cyst – if you dare Carla Sinclair

Journalism The media "blowing it again" in last days of election, but "not as badly" as last time Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Homebiogas: easy, clean, climate-friendly way to heat and power your home with garbage Cory Doctorow

trump Browser extension to fix the NYT's squeamishness about calling Trump a liar Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The business-logic of Silicon Valley means that it can only make creepy, surveillant, pointless "smart" sex toys Cory Doctorow

Democrats Progressive Democrats are using small-money donations to outraise establishment opponents with deep-pocketed millionaire backers Cory Doctorow

books The excellent Standards Manual design series announces next title Andrea James

Food Some folks call green peppers "mangoes" for a centuries-old reason Andrea James

clocks Watch people attempt to approximate when one hour has passed David Pescovitz