Brainstorming The rules of brainstorming, according to top design firm IDEO Rusty Blazenhoff

Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn

Gadgets This mind mapping app brings order to all your big ideas Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets This smart notebook lets you write freehand while still saving your notes to the cloud Boing Boing's Shop

events Crowdfunding a symposium on a green, postcapitalist economics in Brussels, Nov 11 Cory Doctorow

useful stuff What does writer and human guinea pig AJ Jacobs keep in his bag? Mark Frauenfelder

Kids Philadelphians debate whether parks and rec centers should use anti-personnel weapons that indiscriminately target children Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Put music therapy to work with this science-backed app Boing Boing's Shop

useful stuff New Recomendo – six tips of things I like Mark Frauenfelder

picks Trump's lying, there is no terrorism crisis on the US-Mexico border. Xeni Jardin

halloween Toddlers connected in clever 'Slinky Dog' costume Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

music A funk cover of "Sweet Child O' Mine" Rusty Blazenhoff

puzzles Weird Al Yankovic co-authored today's New York Times crowssword puzzle David Pescovitz

surveillance The idea behind Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt's daughter Cory Doctorow

urban theory One quarter of New Orleans' catch-basins were clogged to uselessness with 93,000 lbs of plastic Mardi Gras beads Cory Doctorow

Science "It’s Never Aliens—until It Is" David Pescovitz

chickens This UFO chicken coop is everything Rusty Blazenhoff

decisions Make tough decisions easier with a decision matrix R.E. Stearn

health The heartwarming story behind the internet's premier testicle clickbait site Rob Beschizza