asshole design This electronic ultrasonic bug and rat repellent device has a circuit to light LEDs, but nothing else Mark Frauenfelder

asshole design Toilet designed to be uncomfortable to sit on, aimed at boosting employee productivity Mark Frauenfelder

asshole design How Disney teaches kids to be suspicious Mark Frauenfelder

asshole design A glossary of dirty tricks websites use against their readers Mark Frauenfelder

asshole design The worst of modern websites, in one short video Mark Frauenfelder

asshole design Deceptive packaging makes it look like you are getting 3 pens, but there's only one in the box Mark Frauenfelder

parks Late night stumble into Yellowstone's Old Faithful results in trip to burn ward Jason Weisberger

music Watch Johnny Rotten act like an ass to Henry Rollins and Marky Ramone last night David Pescovitz

deceptive advertising 50 examples of product packaging designed to deceive you Mark Frauenfelder

politics A list of Steve King's worst remarks: Racist, shocking, and just plain stupid Xeni Jardin

music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff

politics Beach Week (2018), a film by the Coen Brothers Rob Beschizza

jordan peterson Jordan Peterson's gamma lobsters find a new low: defending censorship Cory Doctorow

genocide Canadian professor working towards inclusion for British Columbia's Indigenous communities Seamus Bellamy

ephemera Creepy Victorian era advertising fad Mark Frauenfelder

videos Greedy landlords create a mass-extinction event in Burbank's indie paradise Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

scammers Examples of "dark design patterns" — aka, asshole designs Mark Frauenfelder

class war Does capitalism breed greed, or elevate the greedy? Cory Doctorow

Games Gamer culture is so toxic that "being candid in public is dangerous" for developers Rob Beschizza