holidays JOHN WILCOCK: A Xmas Letter From Hunter S. Thompson Ethan Persoff

arbitrage Doordash charges $16 for a $24 pizza, so the pizzeria bought its own pizzas and made money Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment Yaphet Kotto turned down the role of Jean-Luc Picard Rob Beschizza

Spoken Word with Electronics Hear E.E. Cummings Read "anyone lived in a pretty how town" and Paul Krassner Recalls: "The Day I Met Lenny Bruce!" Ethan Persoff

happy mutants Children are becoming snail mail pen pals with Fairyland "elves" in this time of social distancing Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Your dollar bills could kill you, and Prince Andrew tries to kill himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

fonts TT2020: an old-timey typewriter typeface that doesn't look fake Rob Beschizza

language UK Apostrophe Protection Society surrender's, saying "ignorance and lazines's have won" Cory Doctorow

Games Review / Control Rob Beschizza

time has come today A tiny word clock Clive Thompson

turing completist Virtual Enigma machine illustrates how signals traveled through its wiring and rotors Clive Thompson

writing Lovely lokta notecards Jason Weisberger

pens Panic averted! Two empty Maruman Mnemosyne notebooks have arrived Jason Weisberger

Business As New York State's shareholder suit against Big Oil for climate denial proceeds, Exxonmobil caught intimidating witnesses Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A visit to Bosnia's last pigeon post office Cory Doctorow

class war A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Portland! Come see me tonight in Fort Vancouver with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Seattle & Anaheim! Cory Doctorow