Internet of crappy things More snarky comments about crappy design Mark Frauenfelder

picks A review of Starbucks' fancy $80 mug Rusty Blazenhoff

silicon valley $1000 smart teapot discontinued Mark Frauenfelder

NSFW The Refrigerator Unexpectedly Showed Dick Doodles and Streaming Porn to a Visitor Glenn Fleishman

trumpism Breitbart is too dumb to survive the net neutrality apocalypse Cory Doctorow

1990s The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer Jess Kimble Leslie

david bowie David Bowie, circa 1999, on the "exhilarating and terrifying" future of the Internet Gareth Branwyn

security Not just crapgadgets: Sony's enterprise CCTV can be easily hacked by IoT worms like Mirai Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets get hacked within 40 minutes of being connected to the net Cory Doctorow

books Documentary about the rise and fall of Tower records Mark Frauenfelder

writing tools Is Alphasmart STILL the ultimate writers' tool? Rob Beschizza

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery

beastie boys Remembering Sassy Magazine's life advice for teen girls Theresa DeLucci

ed piskor The Ed Piskor Interview Marc Sobel

Business Makers: economic manifesto Cory Doctorow