christmas Things cats hate: Christmas bonnets Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

music This ska-jazz cover of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons theme is everything Rusty Blazenhoff

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

facebook The Facebook Community Standards Roast! Ethan Persoff

useful stuff Gigantic tub of 22,000 Perler beads Mark Frauenfelder

8mm movies This tourist-shot 8mm film shows what New York City looked like in 1976 Mark Frauenfelder

creativity How a children's book about a mouse is keeping me motivated in quarantine Thom Dunn

Comics Friday: the new digital-first, pay-what-you-want Lovecraftian YA detective comic from Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Thom Dunn

toys The wonderful history of Troll Dolls David Pescovitz

books Labyrinth children's storybook coming this fall Rob Beschizza

futility closet In 1889, a dam failure sent a disastrous flood descending on Johnstown, Pennsylvania Futility Closet

coronavirus Build your own makeshift "quarantine pool table" Rusty Blazenhoff

coronavirus People are putting their holiday lights back up to bring joy and hope Rusty Blazenhoff

australia Michael Bublé performed a private concert of Christmas songs for a trio of gorillas Thom Dunn

stop motion animation A stop-motion car combat show from Jon Favreau and Seth Green coming to Quibi Gareth Branwyn

The stock market is plunging today, but two things are up: the price of gold, and weed use among seniors Mark Frauenfelder

cartoons Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions Rusty Blazenhoff

books Book nooks, miniature fantasy worlds on your bookshelves Gareth Branwyn

britain What British children's TV used to be like Rob Beschizza