youtube Warner claims ownership over the numbers 36 and 50, and demonetizes Youtube videos that incorporate them Cory Doctorow

futility closet Two settlers disappeared from a small Eastern Pacific island in 1934 Futility Closet

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

cover songs The Fresh Prince theme song as a tragic Irish pub ballad Thom Dunn

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Tom the Dancing Bug Four years of Trumpist surrealism and horror in one Book: Into the Trumpverse, comics by Ruben Bolling Boing Boing

Covid-1984 bullshit Reporter asks why Trump cult covidiots won't wear masks Mark Frauenfelder

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futility closet In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Futility Closet

futility closet Boxer Johann Trollmann challenged the Nazis' presumption of his ethnic inferiority Futility Closet

trump How did 45 Russian ventilators linked to deaths in Russia reach U.S. with no FDA oversight? Xeni Jardin

picks Senate approves John Ratcliffe as top U.S. spy Xeni Jardin

music Half-Life with all sounds replaced with rave music samples David Pescovitz

politics Biden finally nicknames Trump — ‘President Tweety’ Xeni Jardin

futility closet In 1957, an underdog Mexican team stunned the world of Little League baseball Futility Closet

quarantine A stop motion ode to quarantine made entirely out of toilet paper Janelle Hessig

coronavirus NYC record: 58 straight days with no pedestrian deaths Mark Frauenfelder