canada Glow-in-the-dark 'toonie' celebrates Canada's 150th Rusty Blazenhoff

Copyfight 'We Shall Overcome' copyright may be overcome by same lawyers who freed 'Happy Birthday' into public domain Xeni Jardin

grateful dead Happy 76th Birthday, Phil Jason Weisberger

Business Copyright trolls who claimed to own "Happy Birthday" will pay $14M to their "customers" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants First Second Books: a look back at ten years of world-changing graphic publishing Cory Doctorow

Copyfight After 80 years, Happy Birthday song is finally in the public domain Xeni Jardin

copyright The twisted history of the Happy Birthday song—and the copyright shenanigans that keep it profitable Glenn Fleishman

happy birthday Evidence found that Happy Birthday song older than copyright owner claims Rob Beschizza

movies Return of the Ewok, an unreleased mockumentary starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher David Pescovitz

trump Why tabloid reporters are like Donald Trump Peter Sheridan

tips On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly offers 68 bits of unsolicited advice Mark Frauenfelder

Book A fun ditty to celebrate Golden Gate Park's 150th birthday Rusty Blazenhoff

well this is awkward What's a really awkward situation that everyone can relate with? Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Clean up and class up your bathroom with this sensor-driven, hands-free soap dispenser Boing Boing's Shop

Cartoonists Happy 99th birthday to MAD cartoonist Al Jaffee, and scans of my snappy answers I wrote as a kid Mark Frauenfelder

Pee-Wee Herman Pee-wee Herman fans are going all out for "Big Adventure" 35th anniversary tour Rusty Blazenhoff

copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn

concerts George Harrison, "Beware of Darkness," on his birthday Gareth Branwyn

politics Trump, an idiot, wishes you 'Happy President’s Day' Xeni Jardin

contagion FDA warns Purell to back off hand sanitizer germ-killing claims Rob Beschizza