mistakes New York Times: Brett Kavanaugh thrusting his penis in a woman's face "may seem like harmless fun" Rob Beschizza
Weird Masked employee in Ohio haunted house park pushes down and mock-rapes horrified visitors Carla Sinclair
happy mutants Buskers are the only performers making money at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here's how. Mat Ricardo
slow motion The Slow Mo Guys capture colorful paint on a booming speaker in 12,500fps Rusty Blazenhoff
A not so perfect scene Watch: Apparently the 1980s thought vigorous thrusting by John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis was a good thing Carla Sinclair
Business Peter Thiel & Y Combinator fund a "litigation financing" startup to make money off other peoples' lawsuits Cory Doctorow
books The Twenty-Year Death, a crime novel written in the form of three different period crime novels Mark Frauenfelder
Win a signed galley copy of Greg Bear & Neal Stephenson's upcoming collaborative book: The Mongoliad! (plus excerpt) Mark Frauenfelder
Comics How "idealization" of women in comics differs from idealization of male characters Cory Doctorow