polaroid Polaroid, finally united with the Impossible Project, returns to instant-film roots Rob Beschizza

guns Not first rodeo for gun-toting St. Louis couple Rob Beschizza

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

Gadgets The Polaroid OneStep revival is the true party camera that everybody needs right now Boing Boing's Shop

new york city A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more Gareth Branwyn

photography The new Barbie Polaroid camera actually sounds pretty wonderful Thom Dunn

music Shut-in sounds: 33 of the best industrial albums Gareth Branwyn

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

Funny Watch the Cookie Monster's first appearance, in a 1967 IBM training film David Pescovitz

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

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

movies Kevin Smith to do a theatrical reading of his Clerks III script David Pescovitz

Gadgets This digital camera takes retro-style pics without the retro film Boing Boing's Shop

Old school A look back at the sales training for Radio Shack's Model 100, a groundbreaking early laptop Cory Doctorow

horror David Lynch's Mystery Man's place in the horror pantheon Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow

Clash of the corporate titans: Who's spending what in Europe's Copyright Directive battle Cory Doctorow

rip RIP Al Matthews, 'Aliens' fantastic Sgt. Apone Jason Weisberger

bong bong Randy's Black Label gets my marijuana smoking glassware sparkling clean Jason Weisberger