Games Current chess champion Magnus Carlsen is also one of the top fantasy soccer players in the world John Struan

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

COVID-19 Celebrating the mad genius of music producer Hal Willner, who has died, likely of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

art Watch Laurie Anderson's fantastic "What You Mean We?" (1986) from PBS's Alive from Off Center David Pescovitz

checkmate Why chess wrecks the bodies of grandmasters Clive Thompson

Your Anus in Chocolate Richard Kaufman

racism FedEx driver delivers racist attacker to the afterlife Seamus Bellamy

security Singapore healthcare provider breached, personal records of 1.5m people – including the Prime Minister – stolen Cory Doctorow

x-men: grand design X-Men: Grand Design – Magnus and Magda Ed Piskor

Gadgets FTC orders manufacturers to cut it out with the unenforceable "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers Cory Doctorow

physics Demonstrating the Magnus effect for fun and fun Jason Weisberger

science fiction Sci-fi short film – "Orbit Ever After" Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Paradise Papers reveal cozy relationship between Stubhub and Canadian botmaster/scalper kingpin Cory Doctorow

Drug bust Oops, man panics and snitches on himself about $500 million opium poppy field Carla Sinclair

Science This working RC plane has KFC buckets for wings Andrea James

law Tiny, poor, diabetes-wracked Pacific island nations want to ban junk food, despite risk of WTO retaliation Cory Doctorow

video Watch things flying in compressed air Andrea James

law Icelandic Supreme Court: all nine top bankers are guilty of market manipulation Cory Doctorow

Disney To do in San Francisco: Oct 15 panel on the creation of the Haunted Mansion Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Illegal "Warranty Void If Removed" still ubiquitous: they're on the Xbox One S Cory Doctorow