Gadgets A beer cooler that follows you around Mark Frauenfelder

writing Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets 30 items on sale for Memorial Day that'll improve your home and beyond Boing Boing's Shop

ireland The Cork City Dump is a haunted graveyard of your childhood Thom Dunn

Boston Marathon A healthcare worker ran her own Boston Marathon to spell out "Boston Strong" but she spelled it wrong Thom Dunn

Gadgets This putting mat combines golf and beer pong for an epic backyard game Boing Boing's Shop

animals Pizza boxes advertise shelter dogs for adoption David Pescovitz

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

Weird Dutch family spent nine years living in a secret room "waiting for the end of time" David Pescovitz

tabloids Royal scandals and the Obamas divorce, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

amish Police seek drivers of abandoned Amish buggy equipped with loud stereo and Michelob Ultra Jason Weisberger

law Purdue's court filings understate its role in the opioid epidemic by 80% Cory Doctorow

mistakes If we ate bread the way we drank beer Rob Beschizza

tabloids Brad Pitt’s brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week’s dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan

science fiction Howto: design a cocktail for a Lunar civilization Cory Doctorow

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

Technology Facebook says it never sells your data but these internal documents show exactly how much they value your data in dollars Xeni Jardin