Business Spinal Tap's $400m lawsuit against Vivendi will proceed Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets Here’s your Father’s Day Gift Guide…so you better choose wisely Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets These are 40 of the coolest things that are on sale this week Boing Boing's Shop

obituaries Rare early Kraftwerk performances before they were showroom dummies Gareth Branwyn

Nintendo A review of Animal Crossing by someone who hates it Mark Frauenfelder

Heavy Metal The singer of a KISS cover band caught on fire in the middle of a show and kept playing Thom Dunn

nest Mattress shopping with a bad back Jason Weisberger

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

science fiction Podcast: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 2) Cory Doctorow

your ig nobel is in the mail Knives made of human feces don't actually work, experiment finds Clive Thompson

Gadgets Get skin-deep relief with these CBD lotions and creams Boing Boing's Shop

Archie McPhee Make funny faces with these Baby Face and Hairless Hugo magnetic drawing toys Rusty Blazenhoff

gift guide Star Wars-themed furniture to furnish your Tardis with Cory Doctorow

race TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches Cory Doctorow

mistakes How long will it take my baby son to defeat the Strong Suction Silicone Plate? Rob Beschizza

crime Officials probe mysterious origin of Nazi symbol on fired cop's flashlight Rob Beschizza

video Panty hose stuffed with hair clippings works great on oil slicks Andrea James

movies Cutlery from 2001: A Space Odyssey is available on Amazon David Pescovitz