music Mark Twain's 1900 rewrite of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, strangely apropos today Cory Doctorow

futility closet The first woman to circle the world did so disguised as a man Futility Closet

circline the drain Share price for MoviePass drops $132, now trades at 5¢ Mark Frauenfelder

libraries The New York Public Library's curious collection of authors' personal items David Pescovitz

novels Late bloomers: 10 classic books with terrible initial reviews Alyssa Favreau

Kids Cool satellite view of dozens of oxbow lakes formed when a river changed course Andrea James

Impersonations Eddie Murphy's perfect Bill Cosby impersonation Mark Frauenfelder

legal Everyone's rescinding honors paid to Bill Cosby faster than shit through a goose Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

family LIGHTS! CAMERA! NORTON! Three films about the Emperor of the United States Jason Weisberger

freebies Free kindle edition of "100 Books You Must Read Before You Die" Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet What Mark Twain learned from a palm reader Futility Closet

happy mutants Jughead: Zdarsky's reboot is funny, fannish, and freaky Cory Doctorow

whoosh Christian bookstore puts anti-Christian quote in window Mark Frauenfelder

writing Proselint is a "style checker" for your writing Rob Beschizza

picks All aboard the railroad at Tokyo Disneyland! Richard Kaufman

disneyland Disneyland has stopped offering 13 minutes of tranquility Richard Kaufman

The crudely drawn penis snuck into 1884 edition Huckleberry Finn Mark Frauenfelder