video Mad Feet brilliantly combines George Miller's Mad Max and Happy Feet Andrea James

infosec How to spy on someone using a lightbulb as a remote microphone Thom Dunn

card games My favorite new game, KnifeTank: The Shüffling, is now on Kickstarter Gareth Branwyn

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bucket list disasters A persuasive argument for taking down the Mona Lisa Mark Frauenfelder

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Business When the company that made your prosthetic feet won't repair them Cory Doctorow

tabloids How Mafia Killed the Pope, Meghan & Harry quit the Royal Family, and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

sounds Music of the circuit-bent smoke alarms Rob Beschizza

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Business Ryanair says it "will not tolerate" in-flight racial abuse after tolerating it Rob Beschizza

property rights Vinod Khosla, Beach Villain Rob Beschizza

construction Every terrifying detail of what it's like to work as a saturation diver Andrea James

fake news Prince Charles’ four love children, the Clintons’ corruption, and who needs Brad Pitt anyway, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Weird Man donates frostbitten digits to Canadian bar to use as a cocktail garnish Seamus Bellamy

Science Flat earth-preaching rocketeer finally gets off the ground Seamus Bellamy

picks I rode Amtrak's Coast Starlight the wrong direction. I still loved it. Jason Weisberger

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