birthdays Celebrate the wonder that is Stevie with a drum solo Gareth Branwyn

concerts George Harrison, "Beware of Darkness," on his birthday Gareth Branwyn

birthdays Boing Boing is 20 (or 33) years old today Mark Frauenfelder

birthdays How Joe Strummer got through this interview is anyone's guess Seamus Bellamy

music Listen to David Bowie hear a touching birthday message from Scott Walker David Pescovitz

cakes Watch the weird way Mitt Romney blows out the birthday candles on his Twinkies cake David Pescovitz

birthdays Happy birthday, Dawn Wells! Jason Weisberger

music Spaced-out cover of Love and Rockets' "Holiday on the Moon" by Darwin Meiners David Pescovitz

History Happy birthday to the world's oldest person! David Pescovitz

science fiction 'Alien' piñata Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Tribute will help you create a heartfelt video montage and it won’t take you hours to do it Boing Boing's Shop

COVID-19 Canadian firefighters offering drive-by birthday greetings Seamus Bellamy

futility closet Using literature to retain your humanity in a Soviet prison camp Futility Closet

security Facebook must also pay SEC $100 million over misuse of user data Xeni Jardin

security A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow

disneyland Children's Fairyland, the mid-century storybook theme park that inspired Walt Disney and where Frank Oz got his start Rusty Blazenhoff

Axl Rose Local news celebrates Mickey Rourke and Axl Rose's 50th wedding anniversary Rusty Blazenhoff