summertime A bear got into a backyard hot tub and drank a guy's margarita Rusty Blazenhoff

france Real-life "Spider-Man" scales Parisian building to save dangling child, gets rewarded with citizenship Rusty Blazenhoff

baby Anthony Kiedis saved a baby after Carpool Karaoke Andrea James

amazing Young woman lifts pickup truck that fell on her father David Pescovitz

Food Watch this superhero chef use her incredible superpowers to make Mooncake David Pescovitz

Tom the Dancing Bug A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at Antifa Ruben Bolling

Disney VFX student's TikTok superhero reel catches the eye of Disney's Bob Iger Rusty Blazenhoff

russia Look how cool these old Soviet calendars are Mark Frauenfelder

statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn

drugs Watch Jeanette go from pills to reefer to heroin in this 1961 anti-drug film Andrea James

cover songs The Fresh Prince theme song as a tragic Irish pub ballad Thom Dunn

Delightful Creatures Officials honor hero cat who saved an old man trapped in a canal Andrea James

Gadgets Finally learn how to play the guitar with the guidance of these expert-led classes Boing Boing's Shop

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

web RSS Box creates the feeds missing on popular platforms Rob Beschizza

books The "Into the Wild Bus" is gone David Pescovitz

Reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history Thom Dunn

schoolhouse rock The Roots teach a 'Schoolhouse Rock!'-style lesson on slavery Rusty Blazenhoff

music New Adam Schlesinger tribute album features covers by Rachel Bloom, Charly Bliss, Sarah Silverman, Nada Surf, and many many more Thom Dunn

trailers The new trailer for season 2 of DOOM PATROL brings the SeX-Men to HBO Max Thom Dunn