music Listen to the cowboy throat singer David Pescovitz

tabloids Your dollar bills could kill you, and Prince Andrew tries to kill himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

ireland The traditional music of the world would die without risk-takers like Martin Hayes Seamus Bellamy

music Pete Drake's beautiful pedal steel "talk box" tune from 1963, long before Peter Frampton showed us the way David Pescovitz

crowdfunding Hazmat Modine's new album is killer but they need your help to finish it Seamus Bellamy

snoring This surgeon says snoring is a voluntary habit and can be cured by singing God Save the Queen with your tongue poked out Mark Frauenfelder

music Man sings two melodies at the same time Mark Frauenfelder

Science Scientists are studying what made Queen singer Freddie Mercury's voice so amazing and unique David Pescovitz

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

fiction The Age of Dingdong David Cairns

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