Minus the Bomb
Godzilla turns 72 today and Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan. The first time America got him, it paid $25,000 and cut out the bomb.
The Parade Came Second
On Saturday 1.6 million people watched Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade. Eleven years ago there wasn't one. James Bond walked through it first.
The Brilliant Project
Thirty-eight years ago tomorrow, a Cornell grad student crashed the internet by accident. He got probation, then tenure at MIT, then co-founded the firm that funded Reddit.
Bones on the Outside
For Halloween: the 1938 evening dress Schiaparelli and Dalí made with its skeleton on the outside. The V&A show it's in is sold out, with two weeks left.
Too Coarse for Letters
The first ballpoint pen was patented 138 years ago today by a bank cashier, and it couldn't write a letter. The one that could became an Argentine word.
