microsoft Microsoft to make Skype usable again Seamus Bellamy

zoom mmhmm turns Zoom chats into SNL's weekend update Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets This training package will have you using all of Microsoft Office like a boss Boing Boing's Shop

Nintendo Switch XCOM 2 for the Nintendo Switch is a glitchy heart breaker Seamus Bellamy

glasses Original nerd glasses from 1756 saved from trash, auctioned for $5k David Pescovitz

genocide This children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist violence for kids Thom Dunn

music Listen to "Internet Loving," an earnest and delightful country ditty from the 1990s David Pescovitz

covid Covid-19 is making New York kinky again Matt Maranian

san francisco Artist turned crossing light into Black Power fist Rusty Blazenhoff

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facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

Delightful Creatures Dog is trying to have a conversation here Rob Beschizza

b-side Boston Dynamics robot dog herds sheep Rob Beschizza

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

Funny "Clone Machine" to easily sneak away from a Zoom meeting David Pescovitz

tabloids Roy Horn lives, China lied, and Murder Hornets Swarm America, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Gadgets Access 200+ lectures from Malcom Gladwell, Chris Hadfield, Elon Musk, and more Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets Webinars are a hugely successful marketing tool and this software can help you launch one Boing Boing's Shop

Games Hacker Bribed and Phished to Access Some Roblox Accounts Xeni Jardin

Japan FaceTime some eels — because they are "forgetting about people" Rusty Blazenhoff