design Otis and Dorothy Shepard: exemplars of mid-20th century design Ben Marks

gift guide Minecraft: The Complete Handbook Collection Mark Frauenfelder

Visual Aid – a book of charts that explain how the world works Boing Boing

Lifehacks for sociopaths Mark Frauenfelder

Secret languages of twins David Pescovitz

drug policy Congress ends federal ban on medical marijuana Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Tucows launching "mini-Google-fiber" to compete with Comcast Cory Doctorow

I'm dreaming of a Cat Christmas Xeni Jardin

pollution Inside Beijing's airpocalypse – a city made "almost uninhabitable" by pollution Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Crypto-Santa: use onion routing to anonymize gifts at your Xmas party Cory Doctorow

Vomit Minecraft block Rob Beschizza

politics UK cops demand list of attendees at university fracking debate Cory Doctorow

Learn how to survive a helicopter crash in water David Pescovitz

happy mutants Laser-cut record clocks Cory Doctorow

One of the last northern white rhinos has died David Pescovitz

Science explains why cops shoot black men Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing reader sees Santa in a plate of breakfast Xeni Jardin

GIF: Panda dodges laser blasts Xeni Jardin