memes 'Shut up and take my money,' the wallet Rusty Blazenhoff

arsenic Whole Foods' bottled water has "concerning levels of arsenic," says Consumer Reports Carla Sinclair

typography The Butt Types: a bootyful typographical project for parenthesis in different fonts Thom Dunn

britain British people proudly held a virtual knob-eating contest Thom Dunn

Dick Cavett Watch Salvador Dali mistreat an anteater and talk about his mustache on Dick Cavett Mark Frauenfelder

rube goldberg Pee-wee's Big Adventure isn't the only movie with a Rube Goldberg breakfast machine Rusty Blazenhoff

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

bbq Getting the right amount of smokey flavor when BBQing on a bullet smoker Jason Weisberger

security Penetration tester releases proof-of-concept code for hijacking smart buttplugs Cory Doctorow

racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente

linux Why was a BogoMip bogus? Jason Weisberger

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

maker Antique phones lovingly retrofitted with Alexa functionality David Pescovitz

#metoo Someone pulled their dick out: Louis C.K. and the #MeToo movement Maureen Herman

Environment World's largest rodent extermination plan clears entire island of pests Andrea James

halloween The 2017 Halloween Candy Hierarchy: Definitely Not Fake News David Ng and Ben Cohen

1990s The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer Jess Kimble Leslie

art How reddit users created a collaborative pixel masterpiece, Place Mark Frauenfelder

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