Funny "It's easy to play the Nazi card" Cory Doctorow

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

Gadgets These home office essentials will have your home feeling like a real office Boing Boing's Shop

drugs Guy shows how easy it is to buy drugs near the Taj Mahal in India Mark Frauenfelder

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

nest Mattress shopping with a bad back Jason Weisberger

Business Why I won't buy an Ipad: ten years later Cory Doctorow

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

christmas Does the creepy Santa mask from "It's a Wonderful Life" exist somewhere? Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Reviews Review: SpotHero should be called SpotZero Mark Frauenfelder

1201 Apple's extension of "Activation Locks" to laptops will turn refurbishable electronics into e-waste Cory Doctorow

distraction-free writing I found the perfect distraction-free writing device Seamus Bellamy

Business When the company that made your prosthetic feet won't repair them Cory Doctorow

zoology Paris zoo opens a new exhibit with an immortal mutant slime mold called "The Blob" Thom Dunn

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

useful stuff Carla Sinclair talks about some of her favorite tools on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow