taxes Being terrible with money set Will Smith on the path to super stardom Seamus Bellamy

tabloids Prince Harry begs forgiveness, the Queen shops Prince Andrew to the Feds, and Kirstie Alley’s secret life, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Games Awesome 'Dark Souls' game-inspired embroidery project Xeni Jardin

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

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

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

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

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Binky: a fully automated social network that doesn't require you to be sociable Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

illustration Illustrator Drew Friedman writes about working for Jared Kushner Drew Friedman

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

Copyfight American Bar Association votes to DRM the law, put it behind a EULA Cory Doctorow

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2015 Boing Boing

lemony snicket A Series of Unfortunate Questions for Daniel Handler Mark Dery

Japan Meet Cinnamon, the cute character who is viciously bullied every day in Japan Patrick St. Michel

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

game of thrones Death—and dragons—stalk the powerful in Game of Thrones Chris Weitz

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery