bad falls David Copperfield takes stand in trial for magic trick accident that allegedly left man with serious brain injury Carla Sinclair

History This unlucky fellow was the first person to have been killed by a meteorite in recorded history David Pescovitz

ice cream Oscar Mayer intros a hot dog ice cream sandwich to mock French's mustard ice cream Rusty Blazenhoff

fortnite Fortnite: Endgame Jason Weisberger

crime FBI: Online theft, fraud, exploitation caused losses of $2.7B globally in 2018, up from $1.4B in 2017 Xeni Jardin

fake news Trump and Bezos exiled, Royals riled, and Ted Bundy’s child, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business How Epson's patent trolling is killing the EU market for replacement ink Cory Doctorow

crime Porch thief caught Rob Beschizza

futility closet The dig tree: a tragedy of Australian exploration Futility Closet

mishaps Man in hang glider fails to strap in properly, hangs by his hands for dear life Richard Kaufman

Copyfight Florida's prisons change tech providers, wipe out $11.2m worth of music purchased by prisoners Cory Doctorow

corruption How the NYPD recriminalized marijuana after the state decriminalized it Cory Doctorow

futility closet How a brutal 1883 blizzard turned an unlucky fisherman into "the fingerless navigator" Futility Closet

Space NASA photographer's camera cooked by last week's SpaceX rocket launch David Pescovitz

security Under Armour: hackers stole the data of 150,000,000 Myfitnesspal users because of course they did Cory Doctorow

trumpism Judge slams ICE for targeting migrants based on their political opposition to ICE Cory Doctorow

grody to the max Scientists test hagfish slime-defense techniques by building an artificial shark mouth Clive Thompson

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

music The strange, musical world of birdsong contests David Pescovitz