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Gadgets This CMYK color puzzle is maddening yet meditative Boing Boing's Shop

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

music Beethoven original musical manuscript up for auction David Pescovitz

websites The simplest online note-taking website Rob Beschizza

security Son of Spectre: researchers are about to announce eight more Meltdown-style defects in common microprocessors Cory Doctorow

music Randomly generated variations on the Mii Channel theme Rob Beschizza

genetics The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018) Rob Reid

Business Youtube Kids spammers rack up billions of views on disturbing, violent, seemingly algorithmic videos Cory Doctorow

music Kickstarting a "libre" recording of all of Bach's fugues Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Star Wars-themed Billy Bass with Admiral Ackbar's head shouts "It's a trap" Cory Doctorow

Business AI Alarmism: why smart people believe dumb things about our future AI overlords Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kickstarting awesomely nerdy pie-guides Cory Doctorow

art Animal-themed deck of cards Rob Beschizza

not food Pizza duvet covers and throws (plus a cheeseburger) Cory Doctorow

art Watch Ai Weiwei's art iterate into strange animated objects Rob Beschizza

Games Quick strategy game: Eight Minute Empire: Legends Wink