Check out the latest original long-reads in Boing Boing's Features archive

Xeni Jardin 11:24 am Wed Jun 26, 2013

Did you know that we publish original feature articles regularly on Boing Boing? We're more than the old-school linkblog this website began as, way back in the year 2000 (we were a zine before that, but man, that's a whole 'nother saga). In case you missed in the flood of blog posts, here are some of the most recent original features published on Boing Boing:

• Death and the Mainframe: How data analysis can help document human rights atrocities

• Kickstop: how a sleazebag slipped through Kickstarter's cracks

•The making of Family Restaurant, a short film for kids with LGBT parents by Andrea James

• Ants and Stars: Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Italy

• The Snowden Principle, by John Cusack

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