knitting You can knit this badass Wonder Woman shawl Rusty Blazenhoff

aviation A grandmother is suing the TSA for strip searching her to get a look at her panty liner, on Mother's Day Cory Doctorow

mothers day WINK Mother’s Day gift guide Carla Sinclair

Technology WATCH: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity completes 2nd flight from Spaceport America (mission recap video) Xeni Jardin

crime "Officer, you don’t want to do that.” — Idaho mom arrested for COVID-19 'Playdate Protest' Xeni Jardin

coronavirus Florida city commissioner proposes cure for coronavirus: "hold a blow dryer in front of your face, and inhale" Rob Beschizza

coronavirus How a woman from Wuhan took care of her infected mother without becoming infected herself Gareth Branwyn

fantasy A free short story about Irish history to read while you're quarantined over St. Patrick's Day Thom Dunn

Fifty years of Zappa's "Hot Rats" and how it inspired the jazz-rock fusion genre Gareth Branwyn

Delightful Creatures Baby colobus monkey is adorable Xeni Jardin

Business Why I won't buy an Ipad: ten years later Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Flip your flapjacks & omelets in style with this twin-skillet design Boing Boing's Shop

tabletop games What's new in tabletop gaming (Indie edition) Gareth Branwyn

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

family In-laws toy with woman's food allergy in horrifying letter to agony aunt Rob Beschizza

activists Notorious "Fuck the Draft" poster from 1968 up for auction Mark Frauenfelder

gop Mandatory childbirth: how the anti-abortion crusade masks cruelty to women in the "sacralizing of fetuses" Cory Doctorow

health Elizabeth Warren's bold, risky, well-intentioned plan to improve health outcomes for African-American mothers giving birth Cory Doctorow