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Gadgets From smart bags to spinners, here are 10 great luggage ideas for your next trip all on sale Boing Boing's Shop

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Food Tribbles breakfast cereal is an endless box of hairy balls John Struan

review This TARDIS Grows Weed with Artificial Intelligence, PART 2 Richard Metzger

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happy mutants Exit West: beautifully wrought novel about refugees, mobility and borders Cory Doctorow

letting loose Stressed-out students can now break down in the Cry Closet at the University of Utah Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Molly Ringwald's brilliant essay about John Hughes is a superb exploration of what it means to love "problematic" art Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants Survivor, a story from Black Candies: The Eighties Sarah LaBrie

fake news KGB killed JFK, celebrity weight battles, and Bigfoot sightings in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

Art and Design The artist who spent his career painting from 1 to 5607249 Mark Frauenfelder

A book about my favorite graphic designers, House Industries Mark Frauenfelder

security Researchers demonstrate attack for pwning entire wind-farms Cory Doctorow

podcasts Belle Gunness lured lonely men to her Indiana farm to rob and kill them Futility Closet

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

Whole Earth Catalog New book of seminal essays and ideas from the iconic Whole Earth Catalog Gareth Branwyn

politics Harvey Milk's "Hope" speech is worth a revisit today Andrea James