picks Massive, coordinated ATM heist in Japan nets $12.7 million (¥‎1.4 billion) Cory Doctorow

Games Kickstarting Sugar Heist, a delightful card game about stealing candy from babies Thom Dunn

podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics Those weird dirty records in our parents' basement: Belle Barth's Scary 'Adults Only' LP — and SMURF HEIST: "That Day, at Age 6, When I Broke Into a Friend's House to Steal a Gargamel Figurine" Ethan Persoff

happy mutants Send Pics: ripping, brutal, amazing novel about teens, sextortion, revenge and justice Cory Doctorow

art How to find a stolen Van Gogh David Pescovitz

happy mutants 88 Names: Matt Ruff's MMORPG heist novel is "Snow Crash meets the King and I" Cory Doctorow

State of Kentucky must pay $150,000 to man with "IM GOD" license plate following First Amendment suit David Pescovitz

cognitive dissonance National Association of Christian Lawmakers accuse "Satanists and Atheists" for voting in their poll Mark Frauenfelder

Business US charges 4 Chinese spies with hacking Equifax Xeni Jardin

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

finance The cum-ex scam stole $60b from European tax authorities: it's monumentally boring, complicated, and very, very important Cory Doctorow

Weird FBI seeks 'bad wig bandit' on the lam in North Carolina Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

crimes Man robs bank and tosses cash into the air shouting "Merry Christmas" David Pescovitz

boston A stolen lobster truck crashed into another lobster truck, because Boston Thom Dunn

heists The team of elite jewel thieves and the retired cop that helped bring them down John Struan

religious discrimination Woman asked to remove "Hail Satan" T-shirt on American Airlines flight Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet In 1965, a retired truck driver was convicted of one of the greatest art heists in British history Futility Closet

Carly Rae Jepsen performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert John Struan