doggo My Great Pyrenees apparently wants to go outside Jason Weisberger

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

Gadgets Here are 10 of the best free offers or giveaways we found this week Boing Boing's Shop

great escapes World's greatest escape from police pursuit Mark Frauenfelder

Disney Disneyland fan re-creates the Haunted Mansion in Animal Crossing, and it's glorious Rusty Blazenhoff

Science Here comes the sun — our closest star is spitting out mysterious gamma rays Gareth Branwyn

social distancing Wizards of the Coast's "Stay at Home, Play at Home" page of free D&D materials and resources Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Worst Royal crisis ever spells the end of the monarchy, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

coronavirus Harbor, a castellated abbey for the rich to flee the pandemic Rob Beschizza

gaming February is "Snag-a-Normie" month in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly David Pescovitz

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

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california Burbankers! Help put an eviction-protection measure on the 2020 ballot! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Part two of my novella "Martian Chronicles" on Escape Pod: who cleans the toilets in libertopia? Cory Doctorow

tabloids Princess Diana’s killer found (yet again) and Epstein scandal blackmail, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

passings RIP Daniel Johnston 1961-2019 Case Esparros

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

books Notpetya: the incredible story of an escaped US cyberweapon, Russian state hackers, and Ukraine's cyberwar Cory Doctorow