facebook Facebook cancels its all-spying, secret "research" program, Apple cancels Facebook's developer account Cory Doctorow

facebook Project Atlas: Facebook has been secretly paying Iphone users to install an all-surveilling "VPN" app Cory Doctorow

micronations Sealand's caretakers Rob Beschizza

Japan Coming soon to Japan: a 60-ft walking Gundam robot Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Ted Chiang's "Op Ed From the Future": socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy Cory Doctorow

maker Donald Bell reports on the DIY game goodness from the alt.ctrl showcase at GDC Gareth Branwyn

Technology US Air Force proposal: pause the Earth's rotation so nukes would miss targets David Pescovitz

books 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,' by Roger McNamee [BOOKS] Xeni Jardin

Science Livestream killer whale songs and other ocean sounds David Pescovitz

Science NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars David Pescovitz

iconography The debate over the redesigned Wheelchair Symbol Clive Thompson

maps A map of how long it takes to get to a city from anywhere on Earth David Pescovitz

movies A whimsical map of movies, geographically by genre Andrea James

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

movies A book of beautiful hand-painted maps of of 35 great movies Adam Gelbart

animals Why the US Navy wanted to communicate using whale language David Pescovitz

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

art Meet the WWI women who pretended to be rocks for the war effort Cory Doctorow

picks NASA launches OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission now speeding toward Bennu rendezvous Xeni Jardin