politics Conservative politician shared office with "Sugar Daddy" website Rob Beschizza

drugs Celebs talk about tripping balls in "Have a Good Trip" documentary Rusty Blazenhoff

Games Japan’s "Filthiest Underground Gaming Magazine" enters the Internet Archive Rob Beschizza

tabloids End of the British monarchy, FBI’s Epstein cover-up, and Mary Poppins’ orgy, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow

health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Kids New York City: Kick off the weekend by buying cookies from these homeless Girl Scouts Seamus Bellamy

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

Science The sophisticated, hidden ways that trees cooperate and protect each other Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kids explain how banned and challenged books helped them and even saved their lives Joan Bertin and Millie Davis

happy mutants How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty Cory Doctorow

rock and roll The Monkees' impressive new album Gareth Branwyn

picks Why did 31 people suddenly die in a Pakistan village? A horrible mystery solved Xeni Jardin

picks I've had my Kindle Voyage for over a year now, and I love it Jason Weisberger

gift guide Boing Boing Gift Guide 2015 Boing Boing

halloween The Candy Hierarchy 2015: your essential guide to Halloween treats David Ng and Ben Cohen

Breakfast: the most important meal of the day? Gastropod

The Twinkie Murder trial of Harvey Milk's killer Paul Krassner

Searching for Krampus Al Ridenour