crime Paul Manafort's inability to save Word files as PDFs provided the evidence necessary to indict him for fraud Cory Doctorow

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

coronavirus Here are the 5 kinds of pandemic villains who are making things worse for the rest of us Mark Frauenfelder

privacy A single, mysterious server exposed 1.2 billion user records Cory Doctorow

racists Racist Ronald Reagan called Africans "monkeys" in taped call with Nixon Rob Beschizza

Funny Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in "A Night at the Roxbury" David Pescovitz

dunning-kruger incarnate Matt Gaetz wants “to be the conservative AOC.” Take a look at him trying Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism The plane(t) has been hijacked by billionaires, and we're all passengers Cory Doctorow

Science Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation Cory Doctorow

elections Missouri voters kill the state's anti-union law with a massively successful ballot initiative Cory Doctorow

video Mind-bending supercut of computer simulation existence theories Andrea James

politics Richard Mosse's striking Heat Maps, thermal images of refugees Andrea James

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

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

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

shakespeare Which Shakespeare character is Hillary Clinton and should we be worried? William Lashner

happy mutants The Divide: important new documentary about income inequality based on "The Spirit Level" Cory Doctorow

offworld Video games without people of color are not 'neutral' Sidney Fussell

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