code Puke, I am your Phava: code that works both as PHP and Java Rob Beschizza

Technology Turning bricks into batteries David Pescovitz

music Kool & The Gang co-founder Ronald "Khalis" Bell, RIP David Pescovitz

Science Tropical Storm Fay imaged by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Xeni Jardin

tabletop games Solo roleplaying a Thousand Year Old Vampire Gareth Branwyn

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

statues There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia Thom Dunn

trump Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt: "Trump's betrayal to U.S. troops is impossible to overstate" Mark Frauenfelder

cover songs The Fresh Prince theme song as a tragic Irish pub ballad Thom Dunn

cereal Kellogg's is releasing Green Onion-flavored Chex, and the commercial is absolutely bonkers Thom Dunn

racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn

trump Reddit shuts down The_Donald for hate speech, harassment, and targeting Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus The world is putting America in quarantine Mark Frauenfelder

racism The US military is allegedly investigating the cause of racial disparities in the US military Thom Dunn

writing Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs Seamus Bellamy

COVID-19 Obsessive-compulsive disorder as practice for COVID-19 David Pescovitz

ska Madness performs with a string quartet from their "London lock up" Rusty Blazenhoff

design Why the Cooper Black typeface is everywhere Mark Frauenfelder

videogames COPS, the Atari arcade videogame from 1994 based on the now-cancelled "reality" TV show David Pescovitz

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair