music Peter Sellers recites the Beatles (in funny voices) Cory Doctorow

oregon First-ever virtual Oregon Country Fair is happening this weekend Rusty Blazenhoff

free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder

characters Rob Paulsen (voice of Pinky on Pinky and the Brain) critiques others doing his voices Gareth Branwyn

occupy Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an abandoned police station Thom Dunn

News 'Black lives matter' —Mark Zuckerberg, who says Facebook may change policy on state violence, voter suppression Xeni Jardin

racism Stop using the BLM hashtag on your black square (better yet, take it down and start listening and amplifying) Rusty Blazenhoff

star wars Listen to the original NPR radio drama adaptations of the first STAR WARS trilogy Thom Dunn

Technology Trump to sign social media executive order, after lashing out at Twitter Xeni Jardin

Business Trump threatens GOP control of Twitter, Facebook: 'We will strongly regulate, or close them down' Xeni Jardin

speech People can hear your gesticulations Thom Dunn

science fiction Science fiction author Marc Laidlaw is reading his work on YouTube Mark Frauenfelder

conspiracy theories Woman opens fire on cellular tower workers Rob Beschizza

coronavirus Wisconsin voters risked their lives last week — and voted out the party that made them risk their lives Thom Dunn

Gadgets If you’d like to be asleep within 120 seconds every night, the Restly Sleep app says they can make it happen Boing Boing's Shop

Technology Zoom: Thousands of calls found via web search, thanks to default file naming scheme after users saved them in unprotected spaces like open AWS S3 buckets Xeni Jardin

animation Voice of SpongeBob asked to improvise voices of 5 new characters Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Examining the impact of coronavirus on climate change Thom Dunn

tabloids Coronavirus cured (again), Britain’s Royals clash (again) and the woman who pees alcohol (unprecedented) in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

music Watch the lovely trailer for Soul, the new film from Pixar David Pescovitz