virginia Mass shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center, shooter in custody — multiple injuries and deaths Xeni Jardin

Audio Coffee shop ambient sound, for those staying at home who miss it Xeni Jardin

Twighlight Zone Great deal on 25-DVD set for The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets You can get a Philips Momentum 43-inch LED 4K monitor for about $500 Boing Boing's Shop

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

caterpillars This caterpillar wears its old molted heads as hats Thom Dunn

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

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

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

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

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics For triggers, gates, clocks, and sociopaths alike, "Master/Slave" faces retirement Ethan Persoff

books Please don't microwave your library books David Pescovitz

music Saxophone played into an empty pipeline Rob Beschizza

#blacklivesmatter Why America's police look like soldiers Mark Frauenfelder

News Large iguana found in freezer of pizza restaurant in Florida Xeni Jardin

Spoken Word with Electronics In Praise of THE SPAMP! And SPIT-COIN: A Proposal to Convert All Money to Saliva Ethan Persoff

art Man removes wet clay blob on head slice by slice Rob Beschizza

africa "Africa" by Toto performed entirely on electrical zaps from Tesla Coils Thom Dunn

politics Trump lies, 'They’ve come up with the AIDS vaccine' Xeni Jardin