happy mutants Working anthropomorphic doorknobs in the style of Disney's psychedelic Alice in Wonderland Cory Doctorow

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Now with Extra Monsters): At Least One Monster Per Paragraph! This Is Our Guarantee! Marc Laidlaw

censorship Facebook bans famous war photo because the screaming, napalmed child's genitals are offensive Rob Beschizza

Could be a scam Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home Mark Frauenfelder

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery

Robogenesis: the terrifying sequel to Robopocalypse Daniel H Wilson

leary Timothy Leary and Marshall McLuhan, turned on and tuned in Lisa Rein and Michael Horowitz

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

surrealism Nerval's Lobster: Is walking a crustacean any more ridiculous than a dog? Mark Dery