classical music A neo-Baroque fugue based on Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

eff In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis Cory Doctorow

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

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

books The New Yorker's profile of William Gibson: "Droll, chilled out, and scarily articulate" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher

Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Even the rightsholders think Europe’s Article 13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Art and Design Group art show at Corey Helford Gallery in LA: "The New Romantics" Mark Frauenfelder

language Cockygate defeated: judge finds "Cocky" trademark for romance titles unenforceable Cory Doctorow

movies Actually, Solo is good David Mizejewski

disillusionment Post-internet lament Jasmina Tesanovic

fake news Hillary Clinton’s funeral plans, and how to be like Donald Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

security A new, virulent ransomware epidemic is fuelled by yet another leaked NSA cyberweapon Cory Doctorow

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

politics Review: Wolfen (1981) Rob Beschizza