happy mutants The Mid-Century Supper Club revives kooky recipes of yore Rusty Blazenhoff

how to make bread When bread goes kawaii: Rainbow sourdough Janelle Hessig

Gadgets Here’s a truckload of Mother’s Day options for the Mom who loves her kitchen Boing Boing's Shop

COVID-19 Tom Waits pens touching letter to beloved, eccentric music producer, Hal Willner Gareth Branwyn

1990s Dunkaroos are back and here's a 1997 TV commercial for them David Pescovitz

health Ars Technica's dunk on Gwyneth Paltrow's Netflix series is the best dunk of all Cory Doctorow

science fiction That time Charlton Comics published a trans sci-fi story in 1953 Thom Dunn

jeff bezos Visualizing just how stupidly wealthy Bill Gates really is, in under 60 seconds Thom Dunn

I kinda know I'm a little bit cute Meet new White House staffer Paula White, Trump's "prosperity gospel" advisor Mark Frauenfelder

makers The Slinky was invented by accident David Pescovitz

politics Here's a list of the 77 members of House who now favor an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump Xeni Jardin

History The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history books Cory Doctorow

cartoons Watch this far-out Japanese animated "documentary" about UFOs (1975) David Pescovitz

fake news Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Funny That's one way to put leftover IKEA boxes to good use Xeni Jardin

witches Hundreds of witches seen paddleboarding down the Willamette River Carla Sinclair

fake news Alien attack imminent, Buckingham Palace is a drug den, and the Queen is a criminal mastermind, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

retro Pre-internet analog Dash Buttons Andrea James

art Glitch video of Paris street Rob Beschizza

obituary R.I.P. Koko, the amazing gorilla who used sign language to communicate with humans Rusty Blazenhoff