publishing Everything is miscellaneous: why publishing needs tagging Michael R Underwood

tabloids A beheaded tot, isolated stars, and cure coronavirus with herbs, in last week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

art Watch Laurie Anderson's fantastic "What You Mean We?" (1986) from PBS's Alive from Off Center David Pescovitz

Gadgets This self-cleaning toilet brush sanitizes after every use Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets SimpliSafe bypassed with $2 gadget Rob Beschizza

uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow

fake news The 'most powerful man in politics,' demonized in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

picks An overworked US postal worker shares what life is like delivering Amazon packages Rusty Blazenhoff

nerdcore Alex Trebek may leave 'Jeopardy!' in 2020 Rusty Blazenhoff

cuisine The Glory of the Fluffernutter Richard Kaufman

music Watch North Koreans watch K-pop Rob Beschizza

four legs good A pig and his five-dog posse Clive Thompson

Funny A grumpy cat crashes an outdoor nativity scene, making for a really funny photo Rusty Blazenhoff

scholarship Either we don't live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix Cory Doctorow

Nixon Let's deconstruct Nixon's "Resignation Lunch," shall we? Mark Dery

picks Wearing hockey gear, Putin reacts to FBI director James Comey's firing: 'We have nothing to do with that' Xeni Jardin

computers ZX Spectrum Next is an advanced version of the original 8-bit monster machine Rob Beschizza

Sharpshooter Watch cool 84-year-old granny who is said to be world's oldest female sharpshooter Carla Sinclair

Copyfight Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 Cory Doctorow

photography Kodachrome, Pt. 2 Bill Barol