london Three Friends, a Breakdown, and a Lawsuit James Siddle

interviews An interview with legendary bass player Carol Kaye Gareth Branwyn

tabloids LBJ killed JFK, the Queen’s secret lover & Julia Roberts’ divorce, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

bikes Bicycles shipped in fake flatscreen TV boxes suffer less shipping damage David Pescovitz

Gadgets 10 awesome products that do more than just look cool Boing Boing's Shop

late stage capitalism Burbank! Come to an emergency City Hall meeting on 10/29 to deal with the city's eviction crisis! Cory Doctorow

homelessness Video about homeless people who live on a footbridge in Hong Kong Mark Frauenfelder

Bird's eye views Aerial photos of sea-salt flats Clive Thompson

uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow

uk The Oliver Twist workhouse is becoming a block of luxury flats with a "poor door" Cory Doctorow

uk Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers" Cory Doctorow

urban theory The great e-bike experiment: the data Dave Tolnai

Business Chinese Iphone ownership is a marker of membership in the "invisible poor" Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism London's new high-rises: speculators' luxury flats designed never to be occupied Cory Doctorow

Banksy Myth-busting the self-shredding Banksy painting Rob Beschizza

#fixthepolice House of cop who killed Botham Shem Jean has not been searched Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants His Dream of Skyland, a mysterious and touching journey through opium-drenched colonial Hong Kong Cory Doctorow

video Lovely drone footage of a massive Argentine salt flat Andrea James

uk China's super-rich get the lion's share of British plutocrat visas Cory Doctorow

trump As with Nicaragua, so too America Seamus Bellamy