noise pop Miami: Joie De Vivre, Noise Pop and Boing Boing present Surfer Blood, Nov. 7 Jason Weisberger

Gadgets These are 40 of the coolest things that are on sale this week Boing Boing's Shop

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

happy mutants How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" Cory Doctorow

picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper

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

fake news JFK Jr. murdered, Princess Diana murdered, and Prince George targeted by assassin, in this week’s killer tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Kidnapping solved, Tom Cruise’s love plot, and inside Area 51 – in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

halloween The 2017 Halloween Candy Hierarchy: Definitely Not Fake News David Ng and Ben Cohen

NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

deep sea suburbia I bought a clock for a quarter and 3D printed new hands for it Mark Frauenfelder

security Opsec for a world where the laptop ban goes global Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Analyzing all known Metal lyrics with natural language processing Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Make: "Pie Another Day," a no-bake James Bond Oreo pie Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin

books Outliers: the statistical mysteries that hold the key to understanding John H Johnson, PhD and Mike Gluck

Science Randall "XCKD" Munroe's Thing Explainer: delightful exploded diagrams labelled with simple words Cory Doctorow

web theory Turns out that "unsubscribing" from spam actually works Cory Doctorow