what the sam hell Man blows his top because toll booth won't accept his quarter Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

birds Harvard study shows that Harvard kids are dumber than a grey parrot Thom Dunn

Kids Online course shows young artists how to make portraits in Kehinde Wiley's style Andrea James

publishing "Fantasy Magazine" returns after nearly a decade away Thom Dunn

Spoken Word with Electronics For triggers, gates, clocks, and sociopaths alike, "Master/Slave" faces retirement Ethan Persoff

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Energy Floatovoltaics are a cool way to super-charge your solar panels with water Thom Dunn

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

Gadgets Your face mask is you so it better say something and maybe these 20 masks will speak to (and for) you Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets Win a Nintendo Switch, Animal Crossing New Horizons and more — all for FREE Boing Boing's Shop

News Meet Rahul Dubey, 'absolute legend' who sheltered ~70 protestors inside his home for 8 hours overnight Xeni Jardin

tabloids The Man Who Knew Too Much! Why China murdered its own ambassador, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

star wars Is this STAR WARS Cookie Cutter supposed to be a Jawa, or a poop? Thom Dunn

tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics Trump threatens to cut Michigan from federal money over mail-in voting, as 10,000 in state flee breaking dams Xeni Jardin

shelter in place Michelin-starred inn uses mannequins to make things less weird Janelle Hessig

graphic novels Casting announced for the upcoming Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" Thom Dunn

tabloids Do the tabloids deserve a government bailout? This week’s dubious offerings make a poor case for their survival. Peter Sheridan

Comics Friday: the new digital-first, pay-what-you-want Lovecraftian YA detective comic from Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Thom Dunn