marketing "Like a glory hole for your hands": Socially distanced mani trucks announced Rusty Blazenhoff

baseball No more spitting in Major League Baseball David Pescovitz

podcasts Podcast interview Maureen Herman, former bassist of Babes in Toyland Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Your dollar bills could kill you, and Prince Andrew tries to kill himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

Gadgets Get your toddler on the road earlier with the world's lightest balance bike Boing Boing's Shop

History 1980s VHS babes shooting machine guns Rob Beschizza

science fiction RIP, Mike Resnick Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Democrats in Congress reauthorize Patriot Act, again Mark Frauenfelder

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

mistakes Halloween mask of Sloth from The Goonies deemed inaccurate Rob Beschizza

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

podcasts Podcast interview with Maureen Herman, former bassist for Babes in Toyland Mark Frauenfelder

Roadside Attractions Paul Bunyan and other fiberglass advertising giants ride again at Bell Plastics in Hayward California Janelle Hessig

artificial intelligence Why didn't OpenAI release the "Unicorn" version of its AI storytelling software? Mark Frauenfelder

cured with what is right Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Jason Weisberger

health Life with chronic Lyme disease ("post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome") sucks Cory Doctorow

tabloids Quantum physics, Brad & Angie, and Doris Day's scandals, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Gadgets Get a complete master class in coding for under $30 Boing Boing's Shop

Comics Wizard Magazine issue 21, Cartoonist Kayfabe Ed Piskor

ed piskor Cartoonist Kayfabe: Wizard Magazine issue 17, January 1993 Ed Piskor