art Fantastic Azerbaijan rug woven to look like it's melting David Pescovitz

movies You can have The Shining carpet for your own home David Pescovitz

Gadgets This vacuum is cordless, provides 40 minutes of cleaning per charge—and it's on sale Boing Boing's Shop

ecology Scientists: enzyme eats plastic like it's made of Pringles Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets Let a bunch of robots help you get your house cleaned while you are stuck at home Boing Boing's Shop

organized crime Uninhabited mansions of London's "Billionaires' Row" Mark Frauenfelder

Games Review / Control Rob Beschizza

christ what an asshole New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: "cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one" Cory Doctorow

useful stuff This rubber bristles brush is like a cat hair magnet Mark Frauenfelder

media WordPress owners buy Tumblr (Update: for "less than $3m") Rob Beschizza

climate change Hailstorm carpets parts of Guadalajara in a 1.5m layer of ice Cory Doctorow

future The urgent threat of hormone-disrupting chemicals to our health and future Mark Frauenfelder

trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow

pets The best cardboard cat scratcher is the cheapest cardboard cat scratcher Jason Weisberger

Norwegian Cruise Line Watch: Cruise from hell sailed right through "bomb cyclone" despite storm forecast Carla Sinclair

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

books Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye: A Novel Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Rugs woven/squirted from extruded urethane foam Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Disneyland-scented candles Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The carpets of CES, 2016 edition Rob Beschizza