politics Cesar Sayoc Jr., Florida man, arrested in pipe bomb case; van with 'right wing paraphernalia' seized Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 A train engineer in California took the Trolley Problem way too literally and did it bad Thom Dunn

terrorists 'MAGA mail-bomber' Cesar Sayoc: Trump was 'my new found drug' and I was also on steroids Xeni Jardin

events I'm going out on tour with my new science fiction book RADICALIZED and I hope to see you! Cory Doctorow

books 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,' by Roger McNamee [BOOKS] Xeni Jardin

music Devo's open letter on "Drowning in a Devolved World" Cory Doctorow

scholarship A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now Cory Doctorow

usausausa To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

movies Auction: Kelly LeBrock's studded leather jacket from Weird Science David Pescovitz

happy mutants To do in San Francisco this Sunday: Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney at SF in SF Cory Doctorow

reading Ken Norton: "How I read 61 books last year" Mark Frauenfelder

gwot Internal TSA files reveal that they have no evidence the $1B "behavioral detection" program works Cory Doctorow

Science When science intersected with the counterculture, things got wonderfully weird David Pescovitz

media 64% of women prefer country music stars to creepy evangelical hypocrites Peter Sheridan

media Tabloids: Drunk Obama resigns, Sanders is a Russian spy, Unabomber has a baby Peter Sheridan

How South African tabloids inspired my novel Charlie Human

fiction The Age of Dingdong David Cairns