art eBay outsider art Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Here’s your Father’s Day Gift Guide…so you better choose wisely Boing Boing's Shop

trump Why tabloid reporters are like Donald Trump Peter Sheridan

miniatures The tiny worlds of "micro-mechanician" Bill Robertson Gareth Branwyn

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

News UPDATED: Tony Robbins accused of sexually assaulting high schooler at summer camp Xeni Jardin

meat Smoking tri-tip on a bullet smoker Jason Weisberger

Cooking My first attempt at smoking meat on a compact bullet smoker Jason Weisberger

uk How Boris Johnson's "model bus hobby" non sequitur manipulated the public discourse and his search results Cory Doctorow

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

Science In the future we might paint our homes with dead Christmas trees Seamus Bellamy

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

fake news Alien attack imminent, Buckingham Palace is a drug den, and the Queen is a criminal mastermind, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

DIY A build-your-own casket kit Rusty Blazenhoff

art This "restoration" of a 16th century statue at a Spanish church is really… something David Pescovitz

LGBTQ New Jersey town paints crosswalks in bold Pride colors Rusty Blazenhoff

fake news Trump’s Fixer, Killer Clintons, and What Comey Didn’t Reveal, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

los angeles An afternoon with L.A.'s lady-in-pink: Angelyne Rusty Blazenhoff