gas stations Gas Station Encounters is a YouTube channel about crimes, cons, hijinx, and high weirdness in gas station stores Mark Frauenfelder

television Watch Johnny Carson joke about the toilet paper shortage David Pescovitz

coronavirus Las Vegas shuts down, casinos closed over coronavirus Xeni Jardin

Science CLIMATE: 2019 was hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA report Xeni Jardin

canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei

christ what an asshole New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: "cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow

Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow

surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow

travel My life on the road: shit fountains and dump stations Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Insecure medical equipment protocols let attackers spoof diagnostic information Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

happy mutants In a time of "driving while black," the Negro Motorist Green Book gets a new edition Cory Doctorow

fake news Prince Harry’s Real Dad and Tom Cruise’s Sex Guru, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

RoboCop Detroit heads towards a mandatory surveillance state Jason Weisberger

books Facsimile editions of the "Negro Motorist Green Books" from 1940, 1954 and 1963 are selling briskly in 2017 Cory Doctorow

Gadgets First known US example of a gas-pump skimmer that uses SMS to exfiltrate data Cory Doctorow

Gadgets A WiFi camera that makes home and office security a bargain Boing Boing's Shop

travel Touring northern Colombia by car in the rainy season Maggie Tokuda-Hall