vfx Movie VFX pros revisit the visual effects from the Star Wars prequels Seamus Bellamy

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

tabletop games Solo roleplaying a Thousand Year Old Vampire Gareth Branwyn

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

Gadgets This training package will have you using all of Microsoft Office like a boss Boing Boing's Shop

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

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Games Review / Among Trees Rob Beschizza

Kinman Dwarf galaxy Massive star 100 times larger than the sun mysteriously disappears Carla Sinclair

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

Nintendo Switch XCOM 2 for the Nintendo Switch is a glitchy heart breaker Seamus Bellamy

Technology WATCH: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity completes 2nd flight from Spaceport America (mission recap video) Xeni Jardin

History Watch the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video in under four minutes Seamus Bellamy

COVID-19 The European Union may not admit Americans once their borders reopen Seamus Bellamy

useful stuff Photos and videos of bugs and stuff with my USB microscope Mark Frauenfelder

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Plagued by security woes, Zoom promises end-to-end encryption starting in July Xeni Jardin

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