b-side Watch Spike Jonze commercial for weed retailer Mark Frauenfelder

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

Business As COVID-19 surges, Apple re-closes 11 stores temporarily in Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina Xeni Jardin

riots BBC coverage of 1990 tax riots in London Rob Beschizza

Talking comics with One Man War on Terror cartoonist Benjamin Marra Jeffery Klaehn

afrofuturism Watch this opera adaptation of an Octavia Butler novel on Friday night Thom Dunn

Gadgets This massage therapy gun is now on sale for over 30% off and just $100 Boing Boing's Shop

Comics Check out these new Quarantine Comix from the creator of "Ice Cream Man" Thom Dunn

News Coronavirus in Ireland: Leo Varadkar’s St Patrick’s Day broadcast (video, full text) Xeni Jardin

travel My life on the road: Morocco Seamus Bellamy

politics India: Worst mass violence in Delhi in decades kills 13 during Trump visit Xeni Jardin

tabloids Prince Harry begs forgiveness, the Queen shops Prince Andrew to the Feds, and Kirstie Alley’s secret life, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

swag Here are the freebies college football players will get for participating in bowl games this year John Struan

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

sports The potential number one NBA and NFL draft picks were both ruled ineligible by the NCAA John Struan

law Far-right Australian billionaire demands $500k and a vow of silence from a satirical vlogger Cory Doctorow

passings RIP Daniel Johnston 1961-2019 Case Esparros

museums Adam Savage goes behind the scenes at the Smithsonian's Exhibits Central Gareth Branwyn

Event "Happy Accidents," exhibition of Bob Ross paintings opens in Virginia Rusty Blazenhoff