Thanks to all of you and our sponsors at Ford who enabled us to create the Happy Mutant Mobile, a heavily-mutated 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon into what we (and you) imagined for a Boing Boing road machine.

To pharmaceutical firms, legitimate replicas and outright fakes are much the same: neither make them money. But to sufferers in the developing world, the difference is life and death. Charles Ebikeme on the big business of counterfeit medicine in the developing world.

Steve Hoefer explains how to use your teeth to… wait, that's what he says not to do.

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile delighted onlookers at its unveiling during the recent Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! As we've posted, our sponsors at Ford agreed to support the customization, modification, and transformation of a 2014 Ford Transit Connect Wagon into what we (and you) imagined for a Boing Boing road machine.

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Jason and Mark talk about the best chess timer for Scrabble players, a fantastic pizza stone, a compact 3-outlet adapter for hotel use, and a great magic trick for under $5. Plus, a website that converts PDFs to Kindle format.

Special thanks to our longtime sponsor American Apparel, creators of a fantastic array of fashions, all made in the USA and sweatshop-free! Need some summer essentials? Buy now during the AMERICAN APPAREL 20% OFF FLASH SALE, starting at noon PDT today (Tuesday)! The sale runs until 11:59pm PDT tomorrow (Wednesday). Click here and use the discount code: SUMMERBASICS

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Ippodo Matcha (both high grade and super duper high grade ), eBags rolling mini suitcase and packing cubes, the NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band WiFi Gigabit Router, the Light and Motion Sola 2000 SF Dive Photo Light, the Wi-Fi Smart Plug and a SIM card cutter + adapters.

Fantasy Authors Aidan Harte and Brian Staveley discuss what it means to build a world all your own.

Zac Bissonnette believes even horrible people like Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, and Bernie Madoff are occasionally worth listening to.

Kathryn Mills reports that discussion has become dominated by unconvincing 'experts' and scaremongering. The evidence is not in.

Austin Grossman, a novelist and game developer who worked on Ultima Online, Tomb Raider, Thief and Dishonored, is a fan of imaginary games. They're at the center of his latest novel, YOU, just out in paperback, which revolves around a decades-long quest by a group of friends to realize the ultimate game, bringing them fortune, fame, death, misery, love and adventure. Here he offers a tour of his favorite games from the parallel worlds of film and fiction.

Beschizza describes the technology he uses to make things.

Read the first seven chapters from Jo Walton's beautiful novel of forking lives (review), where a single change leads to radically different destinies.

Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, we discuss the Satechi LED Desk Lamp, the Alvin Magnifier Lamp, the GoPro HERO3+ video camera, and the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun.

Boing Boing's Happy Mutant Mobile is on its way to next weekend's Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! Here's a glimpse of the nearly-completed vehicle, created with support from our sponsors at Ford.

In our first episode, Jason and Mark talk about two of their favorite kitchen appliances: the Nomiku Sous Vide Immersion Circulator, and the George Foreman Grill. Plus, two cool iPhone add-ons.

…and bags, and notebooks in the Boing Boing store!

The eagerly anticipated new novel from “one of the master illusionists of our time.” (Wired)

Summary: Near future: Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier: Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day: A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.

Illustration: Adam "ApeLad" Koford Headed to 2014 SXSW Interactive in Austin this weekend? Cory, Xeni, Mark, and Pesco will all be there participating in a variety of sessions. Here's a… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing at SXSW Interactive

We are thrilled to announce that work on the Boing Boing Happy Mutant Mobile has begun! Here's a glimpse of the handiwork from the talented makers at LGE CTS Motorsports!