NASA NASA fixed a Mars probe by hitting it with a shovel Thom Dunn

fake news The Queen dying, Brad Pitt’s bigamy, and official approval for hand jobs, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

exercise Maintaining my target weight and somewhat managing back pain with a homebrew Peloton bike Jason Weisberger

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart

halloween The 2017 Halloween Candy Hierarchy: Definitely Not Fake News David Ng and Ben Cohen

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

media Most shocking true crimes of 2015 and other holiday delights in the tabloids Peter Sheridan

offworld In Undertale, you can choose to kill monsters — or understand them Laura Hudson

offworld Women take a place at the pinball table Laura Hudson

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

offworld I love my untouchable virtual body Aevee Bee

DRONES How Dan Shapiro created the most-backed game in Kickstarter history Mark Frauenfelder

The card game we couldn't make (and then someone else did) Nicole Dieker

Business Matt Taibbi's The Divide: incandescent indictment of the American justice-gap Cory Doctorow

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

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