california I'm speaking at UCSD on Feb 9! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

Environment Feel-good story about the future of vertical farms Cory Doctorow

Gadgets You can get a Philips Momentum 43-inch LED 4K monitor for about $500 Boing Boing's Shop

art How a Black woman turned quilting into a surprisingly radical art form Thom Dunn

Gadgets Your face mask is you so it better say something and maybe these 20 masks will speak to (and for) you Boing Boing's Shop

Science Look at this photo printed on algae in a petri dish Xeni Jardin

Gadgets This electric scooter is the eco-friendly way to travel and it’s got a changeable battery pack  Boing Boing's Shop

Technology Man creates fake traffic jam on Google Maps by carting around 99 cellphones Rob Beschizza

recreational lockpicking Picking the lock on a weird tire-deflating anti-car theft device Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Augmented reality contact lenses get real David Pescovitz

tv TV's Robin had to take pills to shrink his genitals while Batman stuffed his underwear David Pescovitz

climate change What happens when climate change ravages graveyards? Thom Dunn

design Here are the winners of the Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge John Struan

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

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

white supremacy Ecofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movement Cory Doctorow

Science Astonishing X-ray image of the whole sky David Pescovitz

Gadgets Heads up, handypeople: These DIY tools and gadgets are on sale Boing Boing's Shop