music Newly digitized mixtapes from 80s and 90s club DJs Andrea James

crime Millionaire fined after using children's gravestones to build a patio Andrea James

statues There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia Thom Dunn

History Powerful Iwo Jima WWII footage shot by marines in combat and never seen publicly David Pescovitz

christ what an asshole The Lincoln Library executive director got fired for renting Glenn Beck the original Gettysburg Address Cory Doctorow

Science Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data David Pescovitz

astronomy SKYGLOW: Night-sky homage to America's indigenous stargazers Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! Cory Doctorow

video games Unopened copy of Super Mario Bros. sold at auction for $100,150 Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants A virtual re-creation of San Francisco's massive WPA wooden city model Cory Doctorow

News FCC closed due to government shutdown, Ajit Pai won't be at CES Xeni Jardin

petard Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica Cory Doctorow

video Preservationists race to save Antarctica's original outposts Andrea James

Gadgets James Brown and the $600 Cup Noodle Cooker Richard Kaufman

b-side Own a decommissioned lighthouse with bids starting at $10K Andrea James

makers I made my own ink for the apocalypse Meg Elison

picks #NoDAPL: U.S. orders halt in North Dakota pipeline construction on Native land Xeni Jardin

floss Software Heritage: Creating a safe haven for software Paul Brown, Free Software Foundation Europe

Mine Not Yours Western themed auction includes objects sensitive to Oglala Sioux Jason Weisberger

boats Where is Captain Cook's HMS Endeavor? Science can almost tell us! Jason Weisberger