WWII The story of Mimi and Brownie, besties for 74 years Rusty Blazenhoff

medicine Ebola is now a treatable disease Seamus Bellamy

nostalgia This is the Slinky commercial theme of my youth Jason Weisberger

pixel art Iridescent MS Paint stickers Rob Beschizza

Barbados If you can work remotely, Barbados want you to come and stay for a year Mark Frauenfelder

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

animals WATCH: Rescued sloth bears are having fun learning to be free Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 "They want to throw God's wonderful breathing system out": Comments from Florida anti-maskers David Pescovitz

trailers The new trailer for season 2 of DOOM PATROL brings the SeX-Men to HBO Max Thom Dunn

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

Games Kickstarting Sugar Heist, a delightful card game about stealing candy from babies Thom Dunn

Comic Books Talking The Rough Pearl with Xeric Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Kevin Mutch Jeffery Klaehn

interviews Talking Comics with Ignatz Award-Winning Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver Jeffery Klaehn

useful stuff The time I risked my life borrowing a Draft-Matic Mechanical Pencil Mark Frauenfelder

video games Creator of Stardew Valley: "It’s important to me not to just entertain, but to delight" Jeffery Klaehn

picks Happiness and fitness come from my DIY-Peloton: the 2020 update Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Here’s your last chance to nab some of this week’s best deals Boing Boing's Shop

dinosaurs That time Tim Curry played the Devil on an episode of "Dinosaurs" Thom Dunn

animation Animated short with the words of Alan Watts: UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING [by Paul Trillo] Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Rodney Orpheus' pandemic oasis, Desert Island Nerds Gareth Branwyn