airport security This Christmas tree is so fucking metal Thom Dunn

facebook Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid Cory Doctorow

books A 19th century Lithuanian book smuggler defies the autocrat's book-ban Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Busuu can teach you your favorite foreign language and you’ll have worldwide help Boing Boing's Shop

Comics MAD Magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 Janelle Hessig

News U.S. president's message on #WorldPressFreedomDay seems a little off Xeni Jardin

neo-nazis Police decline to arrest the leader of a Neo-Nazi terrorist network because he's 13 years old Thom Dunn

DIY Airport security made a Christmas tree out of confiscated items David Pescovitz

happy mutants Al Jaffee's MAD Life: how a traumatized kid from the shtetl became an American satire icon Cory Doctorow

pyramids World's largest penny pyramid Rob Beschizza

lucky passengers Man gets plane all to himself when flight unintentionally sells only one ticket Carla Sinclair

Food Today in sadness: cut out carbs and red meat'll still kill you Seamus Bellamy

fonts Typeface based on the calligraphy from the Lithuanian declaration of indepedence Rob Beschizza

uk Scottish police confirm requests from world governments to find money laundered through "the UK's homegrown secrecy vehicle" Cory Doctorow

web theory How the tech workers of WWII thwarted the Nazis with high-tech sabotage Cory Doctorow

puzzles Excellent $5 puzzle book: The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations Mark Frauenfelder

art Beautiful collages depict untranslatable words Andrea James

travel Travel blogger documents his near-death crash in Thailand Mark Frauenfelder

car chase Watch this car chase involving a smoke screen and tire spikes! David Pescovitz

refugees The politics of prejudice: how passports rubber-stamp our indifference to refugees Ben Marks