the knack The Chipmunks perform "Good Girls Don't" Mark Frauenfelder

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

writing Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs Seamus Bellamy

Gadgets Puppy training doesn’t have to descend your house into chaos thanks to these online classes Boing Boing's Shop

music Shut-in sounds: 33 of the best industrial albums Gareth Branwyn

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

Games The Planet Zoo economy is broken and flooded with genetically mutated warthogs John Struan

picks Watch Teller almost get SHOCKED by dangerous jugglers The Passing Zone, on 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us!' Xeni Jardin

grifters Trump's "China muse" advisor has been citing a made-up economist for years Thom Dunn

music Listen to this compelling mash-up of 50 songs from 1979 David Pescovitz

Games Tranceive a way out of RELAY's electronic dungeon Rob Beschizza

photography Summer is over. Juggalos are forever. Nate 'Igor' Smith

books HOW TO: XKCD's Randall Munroe finds the humor in taking silly questions very, very seriously Cory Doctorow

movies Bond villains ranked Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet Cory Doctorow

music When William S. Burroughs met Bob Dylan David Pescovitz

aoc Trump says Green New Deal 'A hoax like the hoax I just went through,' disses wind energy technology Xeni Jardin

corruption Matt Taibbi finally makes sense of the Pentagon's trillions in off-books "budgetary irregularities" Cory Doctorow

art Creepy anatomical jewelry and housewares Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza