film The world's first Christmas movie is a silent one made in 1898 Rusty Blazenhoff

Steampunk Kinetic steampunk pub in Romania is boozily adorable Xeni Jardin

art Fascinating short doc about Keith Haring's mural in Melbourne and its stolen signature David Pescovitz

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

Technology Adam Savage builds a steampunk rickshaw to be pulled by a Boston Dynamics robot Gareth Branwyn

australia Australia's location corrected Rob Beschizza

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

Disney See behind the scenes of Disneyland's massive holiday decor system Rusty Blazenhoff

media "Man's neck breaks during arrest," reports newspaper Rob Beschizza

books Publisher cans Naomi Wolf book about homosexuality in Victorian England Rob Beschizza

australia Flying T-Rex fossils found in Australia, because of course they were Thom Dunn

farting "Farting Victorians" wallpaper Rusty Blazenhoff

punctuation Why semicolons are lovely and colons less so Clive Thompson

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

animals Cute Husky puppy shows off hunting prowess Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast Mark Frauenfelder

uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

mistakes Listen to an author realize her forthcoming book contains a terrible mistake Rob Beschizza