Christmas Greetings The best Christmas memory in 60 seconds Richard Kaufman

music Watch Blondie's Debbie Harry on a pogo stick explaining the punk Pogo dance (1978) David Pescovitz

politics Trump commutes Roger Stone's prison sentence Xeni Jardin

george floyd 'A riot is the language of the unheard.' —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Xeni Jardin

tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

real estate For sale: Ozzie and Harriet's haunted home David Pescovitz

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

mistakes Southern Living magazine hates Bradford Pear trees Rob Beschizza

Beatlemaniacos The time a fake Beatles group tricked South America Mark Frauenfelder

documentaries Watch this wonderful and mellow short documentary about janitors (1966) David Pescovitz

Fifty years of Zappa's "Hot Rats" and how it inspired the jazz-rock fusion genre Gareth Branwyn

music "The Fuddy Duddy Walk," is the ‘60s dance craze that never was Matt Maranian

Technology Visiting a China trade show for fireworks manufacturing machines Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

I have a very valid registration Police impersonator arrested Rob Beschizza

Science Groundbreaking 1979 visualization of black hole Rob Beschizza

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

CES Segway announces a new egg-shaped hover chair, because why not Thom Dunn

politics Wakanda removed from official U.S. list of trade partners Rob Beschizza

grifters George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's mother for $100M in order to promote a movie Thom Dunn

slime How to make vast amounts of "thick and glossy" slime Rob Beschizza