racism Reported criminal racial abuse soars 57% on London Underground Rob Beschizza

History Roman road maps in the style of the London Underground's Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Traintrackr is a light-up circuit-board map of the London Underground or Boston Metro Rob Beschizza

photography Photo of mice brawling on a subway platform wins wildlife photography award David Pescovitz

politics Andrew Cuomo's naked hostility drives out MTA president Andy Byford, the "Train Daddy" who has transformed the world's rail systems Cory Doctorow

books The beauty of sewers before the first flush David Pescovitz

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

History What the London Underground used to be like Rob Beschizza

music Watch Nico cover a Gordon Lightfoot tune in 1965 David Pescovitz

police London cops switch off wifi in the tube to make it harder for climate protesters to organise Cory Doctorow

uk Tea swilling British love coffee so much it contaminated their ground water Jason Weisberger

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

uk London's amazing underground infrastructure revealed in vintage cutaway maps Cory Doctorow

privacy The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers' attention and wifi data for £322m Cory Doctorow

fake news Inside Kim Jong-Un’s bunker, the plot to kidnap Prince George, and other fabrications in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies Cory Doctorow

"So unhelpful" Trump's ignorant tweet about London attack gets criticism from Theresa May and former Chief of Staff Carla Sinclair

novels Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire Mark Frauenfelder

poetry Hawk Moon: Sam Shepard’s Forgotten First Book Mark Dery