grateful dead Happy birthday "Shakedown Street" Jason Weisberger

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

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

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

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mental health It's possible to be paralyzed by choice Seamus Bellamy

bullies Macy's pulls fat-shaming dinner plates after complaints Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Copyright filters are automatically removing copies of the Mueller Report Cory Doctorow

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designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger

happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow

Technology I'm an Android loving iPhone user Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

disillusionment Post-internet lament Jasmina Tesanovic

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