The world's longest-running soap opera, otherwise known as the British Royal Family, takes some shocking plot twists in this week's dramatic though fact-challenged tabloids.

"Drunken Camilla's Brawl With Queen!" screams the Globe, complete with a photo of Her Majesty with a "bloody eye wound." — Read the rest

There are trace elements of facts in many of this week's tabloids stories, but that hasn't stopped the rags' alchemists from spinning gold out of these barely-detectable sub-atomic particles.

Your racist uncle is about to have a new favorite TV channel.

Conservative media superstars Glenn Beck and Mark Levin are merging their respective networks to form Blaze Media, a venture they claim will reach over 165 million poor, unfortunate souls. — Read the rest

CVS isn't just in the business of operating retail pharmacies: equally important is its prescription administration services, where it buys drugs from independent pharmacies, marks them up, and sells them to government-run programs like Medicare and prisons, using "spread pricing" to determine the markup that it applies to generic drugs.

From San Jose to Austin to Portland to Seattle (to name just a few), house prices are slumping, inventories are ballooning, and not-a-Nobel-Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller — famed for spotting bubbles before they burst — says "This could be the very beginning of a turning point."

It's strangely reassuring when the National Examiner tells us that Princess Diana's ghost was "caught at Harry's wedding," and that Nostradamus predicted that the "Hawaii volcanoes signal END OF WORLD!" It's comforting, because it's so easy to dismiss the obtuse ramblings of a 16th century seer and a white reflection of light on a wedding photo as errant nonsense unworthy of a second thought. — Read the rest

Bootie Mashup's Adrian Roberts is traveling in Hong Kong right now and came across these amusing knockoff LEGO products at the Temple Street Night Market.

Click on the images below to look at them closer.

photos by Adrian Roberts

In 2010, The Royal Society featured the "Desiderata" (previously) of Robert "Boyle's Law" Boyle, a list of dozens of scientific discoveries and breakthroughs that Boyle hoped would be discovered by scientists.

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The Prolongation of Life.

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The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour'd as in youth.

In his new book Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff says that one-time White House chief strategist Steve Bannon accused the Trump campaign of "treason", a revelation that sparked a hilarious denunciation by Donald Trump, who claimed that his Chief Strategist didn't know anything about his strategies or his chiefs — which drew more attention to the book (as did the legal threats the Trump administration fired at the book's publisher, Macmillan), widening the rift between Bannon and Trump.

The stars are "just like us," we're told every week by the delusionists at Us magazine. But this week the National Examiner goes a step further: "Queen Elizabeth: She's Just Like Us!"

QEII is reportedly "addicted to McDonald's," loves to gamble, and "clips coupons to save cash." — Read the rest

Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia's cyberwar on America's elections and Trump's possible collusion, has impaneled a grand jury in Washington. The Wall Street Journal was first to report this news on Thursday. — Read the rest

Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology displays a nodosaur fossil that is so well-preserved that bumps and crevasses on its surface are clearly visible. National Geographic's Robert Clark captured amazing images.

Author, futurist, and agnostic mystic Robert Anton Wilson died 10 years ago today. Carla and I interviewed him for the first issue of bOING bOING in 1987. In fact, one of the main reasons we started Boing Boing was to have an excuse to interview him. — Read the rest

Robert Hulseman, creator of the iconic Red Solo Cup seen at frat parties, sizzurp celebrations, and Midwestern family reunions everywhere, has died at age 84. Hulseman, with friend Jack Clements, followed up that iconic container design with another: the Solo traveler coffee cup lid, such a classic design that one of them is now in the New York Museum of Modern Art. — Read the rest

It's that time of year when we look back on those we've loved and lost in 2016, but for the tabloids, it's worth remembering those we haven't lost  –  the stars we were promised had just days to live, yet who refuse to play the game and are still with us. — Read the rest

RAWIllumination.net announced yesterday that a manuscript by Robert Anton Wilson has been found and will be published by RVP Publishers in the first half of 2017. The manuscript appears to be substantial, weighing in at 340 pages.

RAW and Discordianism scholar Adam Gorightly rediscovered the book and wrote a forward for it.

Mark Cain's second installment in his Circles of Hell series, A Cold Day in Hell, was just as funny as the first!

Steve, Hell's superintendent, and his assistant, THE Orson Welles, are it again! Seems the air conditioning in Hell is on the fritz, and that proverbial cold day is here. — Read the rest

Star Trek turned 50 in 2016. In its half-century of existence — on TV, on the big screen, and in the worldwide community of its fans — Star Trek has become an integral part of our everyday lives. Even casual viewers know the pointed ears, the Vulcan salute, and the meaning of "beam me up, Scotty." — Read the rest

Depending on how much credence you give to "whisper listings," there are between 27 and 50 $100,000,000+ houses on the market; last year, only two houses in that bracket sold worldwide.

Boing Boing is proud to welcome Robert Jackson Bennett's The City of Blades as a sponsor!

In a world where politics have run amuck and consumers must choose from over 300 varieties of toothpaste, one seemingly simple question rises to the fore: what is my next great read? — Read the rest