calendar A look at some quirky, and downright strange, 2019 calendars Rusty Blazenhoff

Spoken Word with Electronics SWWE Broadcast #10: "Jules Vern was a Copycat, How to Prank a Bird, Ice Cream on TV is Often Mashed Potatoes, and It’s Been 3 Years Since I’ve Had a Drink." Ethan Persoff

happy mutants DJ Riko is back with the 18th annual Merry Mixmas mashup album! Cory Doctorow

AI I played this AI-generated text adventure as the Mandalorian and here's what happened John Struan

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Goodbye Libra, hello Facebook Pay Xeni Jardin

Gadgets 5 innovative massage guns that can blast your aches away Boing Boing's Shop

wonderful creatures Baby fox shows up to say hello at grandma's house Xeni Jardin

dogs Very long dog is adorable Xeni Jardin

facebook Facebook Dating launches because nothing matters Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Marina Abramovic in Belgrade Jasmina Tesanovic

canada My Life on the Road — Staying Still Seamus Bellamy

trump 'Hello(?)!' Trump solicits Kim Jong-Un over Twitter at G20 Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot surveillance device for children Cory Doctorow

plagiarism High school student claims principal plagiarized Ashton Kutcher for graduation speech David Pescovitz

changing minds CES unrevokes robotics prize to women's sex toy Mark Frauenfelder

art eBoy's new design-your-own Swatch watch David Pescovitz

wikileaks Waiting For Assange: A Tragicomedy Tweet Thread Xeni Jardin

politics Meet 'Spread The Vote,' a nonprofit helping voters get IDs, rides, support so they can vote Xeni Jardin

robots Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step Cory Doctorow