gift guide The Art of Osamu Tezuka: Astroboy's God of Manga Wink

canada Incel terror killing at erotic spa Rob Beschizza

art Video: Behind the scenes of the Astro Boy anime (1963) David Pescovitz

Gadgets These toys and games can keep the kids busy while you’re all trapped inside Boing Boing's Shop

Book World Made By Hand is a post-pandemic world novel Mark Frauenfelder

documentary "Beastie Boys Story" drops in April, watch the first trailer Rusty Blazenhoff

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

science fiction Arthur C. Clarke reads his short story "Transit of Earth" (1975) David Pescovitz

happy mutants The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s Cory Doctorow

religion Church under investigation after worshiper pinned down to ‘pray the gay away’ Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Rule of Capture: Inside the martial law tribunals that will come when climate deniers become climate looters and start rendering environmentalists for offshore torture Cory Doctorow

computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

tabloids Hollywood stars too fat and too thin, and the Royal reality TV show, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

politics Here's a list of the 77 members of House who now favor an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump Xeni Jardin

aliens The best evidence for extraterrestrials may be their massive engineering projects David Pescovitz

floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow

art DIY: Video game cartridges laser-carved in wood Xeni Jardin

star trek Why you definitely want to be on Star Trek: The Cruise IV Ken Snider

books The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the "deep state" is just nerds versus grifters Cory Doctorow