Audio My favorite end-of-year tradition: the Bullseye podcast standup comedy special Cory Doctorow

behind the scenes "America's Funniest Home Videos" podcast looks at its history Rusty Blazenhoff

Funny The first book collecting the new Nancy comic is incredibly, fantastically, impossibly great Cory Doctorow

Comic Books The Book of Weirdo – a history of the greatest magazine ever published Mark Frauenfelder

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Comics X-Men: Grand Design 11 – Ungodly Creature Ed Piskor

fake news Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

Funny Photographer botches family portraits in the funniest way possible Rusty Blazenhoff

Comics Comics for a Strange World Mark Frauenfelder

Kids The Kennel Club's Dog Photographer of the Year winners will melt your heart Andrea James

television Tribute to Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island David Pescovitz

Games The 20 games you shouldn't miss in 2016 Brandon Boyer

Funny 90 minutes of the year's best standup comedy albums Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kickstarting Papers & Paychecks, an RPG where you play "workers and students in an industrialized and technological society" Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

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books Unflattening – A graphic dissertation that argues for the power of images over text as a way to teach Wink

Science Bellwether: Connie Willis's classic, hilarious novel about the science of trendiness Cory Doctorow

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