cool story bro That guy who made up a story about stealing a brick of heroin from an MS-13 gang member says he now regrets it Mark Frauenfelder

Spider-Man Bolivian brothers let a black widow bite them all in hopes of getting superpowers Thom Dunn

white supremacists The legal battle over those novelty Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs involves white supremacy and a 60s bondage film star Thom Dunn

smithsonian The origin story of that all-American toy, Slip 'N Slide Andrea James

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

Comic Books Talking The Rough Pearl with Xeric Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Kevin Mutch Jeffery Klaehn

Spoken Word with Electronics David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) is the most essential punk artist of the last century. In this Covid era, he's even more vital. Ethan Persoff

NASA Quarantine survival advice from Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts Thom Dunn

Pee-Wee Herman Pee-wee Herman fans are going all out for "Big Adventure" 35th anniversary tour Rusty Blazenhoff

makers Meet the rocket scientist who invented the Super Soaker David Pescovitz

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

Holiday New Jersey waitress surprised with $1200 tip in Christmas act of kindness Xeni Jardin

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher

Gadgets Save over 25% on this open source portable gaming console Boing Boing's Shop

Disney Imagineering In a Box: free instructional video series from Disney and Khan Academy Cory Doctorow

music End.Game: a synth album from 19A0 Rob Beschizza

crime FBI agent describes finding "Frankensteins" and a "cooler full of penises" at an unregulated Arizona body-donation center Cory Doctorow