cookie monster Waze's Cookie Monster voice is the only thing keeping me sane right now Thom Dunn

sesame street Sesame Street characters doing impressions of each other is gold Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Cookie Monster performs Tom Waits's "Hell Broke Luce" Cory Doctorow

picks Inside a Florida 'Cookie Monster' doll, 314 grams of cocaine found Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Here are 10 of the best free offers or giveaways we found this week Boing Boing's Shop

Rock n Roll A classical flutist listens to Ian Anderson in 1969 and 1976 Gareth Branwyn

Funny Watch the Cookie Monster's first appearance, in a 1967 IBM training film David Pescovitz

mistakes Cookie Monster found OD'd in idling car, charged with child endangerment Rob Beschizza

card games My favorite new game, KnifeTank: The Shüffling, is now on Kickstarter Gareth Branwyn

sesame street Sesame Street Muppets perform at NPR's Tiny Desk Rusty Blazenhoff

disneyland Children's Fairyland, the mid-century storybook theme park that inspired Walt Disney and where Frank Oz got his start Rusty Blazenhoff

roleplaying games What's new in the world of tabletop gaming? (Early August Edition) Gareth Branwyn

muppets Blooper reel from Jim Henson's "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" Rusty Blazenhoff

smart objects In this 1967 IBM training video, the Cookie Monster eats a talking computerized coffee machine Mark Frauenfelder

video Sharing Things, Sesame Street's homage to Stranger Things Andrea James

History Eduard Khil, of Trololo fame, died five years ago Rob Beschizza