Sex The town of Dildo does not want to be used in sex toy ads David Pescovitz

Gadgets No programming skills? No design experience? GameGuru can still help create some bonkers video games Boing Boing's Shop

Funny Every item scanned as "Mr Potato Head" in glitch at department stores David Pescovitz

vehicles UK to allow electric scooters on roads, but only if you rent one Rob Beschizza

goats Mountain Goats have taken over a small Welsh town while humans are in quarantine Thom Dunn

real estate The US government just "disestablished" a Native American reservation Thom Dunn

coronavirus Grocery store throws away $35K of food after woman purposefully coughs on it Mark Frauenfelder

art Making music playing barcodes using hacked barcode scanners Gareth Branwyn

Election 2020 Michael Bloomberg wins "First in the Nation" primary in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire Gina Loukareas

politics 'Shadow' app that failed in Iowa caucus was doomed from the start, say those forced to use it Xeni Jardin

oceans Watch this teen's drone footage of a great white shark casually swimming around unwitting people David Pescovitz

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

road trips Drivers headed to Atlantic City get stranded when a glitchy Waze ad sends them to the wilderness Carla Sinclair

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

bully cops A racist cop bullies two black men for "acting suspicious," and he actually gets fired Carla Sinclair

uk Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach Cory Doctorow

climate change What happens when climate change ravages graveyards? Thom Dunn

racism Kentucky lawmaker freaks over Day of the Dead zombies Thom Dunn

Dungeons & Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (Halloween edition) Gareth Branwyn