louisiana Yikes: A massive swarm of mayflies cover Louisiana gas station Rusty Blazenhoff

street art "Future Internment Camp" signs pop up across the country Andrea James

housewares Watercooler won't dispense until it finishes updating Windows Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Robert Fripp in a bee suit and black stockings? Signs of the apocalypse for sure! Gareth Branwyn

robots This drywall-installing robot will finish building your new home, meatbag Seamus Bellamy

zombies Two more planes full of sick people land in the United States bringing the zombie apocalypse one step closer Seamus Bellamy

Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema

books New edition of The Book of Miracles, the 16th century's premier guide to the apocalypse Rob Beschizza

corruption Rio: your quadrennial reminder that the Olympics colonize host-states with Orwellian surveillance and human rights abuses Cory Doctorow

offworld Offworld Monday reflection: Chimes, specimens and Tinder Leigh Alexander

John Dee was the 16th century's real-life Gandalf Jason Louv

animals Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn't stand a chance David Mizejewski