poetry Telepoem Booths let you dial a poem in vintage phone booths Jennifer Sandlin

art installations "ATM Leaderboard" displays users' bank account balances Jennifer Sandlin

art Andrew Benincasa creates beautiful stop-motion cut-paper videos Jennifer Sandlin

events Maker Faire is headed back to the Bay Area in 2023! Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Wonders of Street View archives strange things seen on Google's mapping service Popkin

paris Monumental Yayoi Kusama installations at Louis Vuitton stores in Paris Jennifer Sandlin

art Mesmerizing hand-cranked sound baths Popkin

national security Suspected "Chinese spy balloon" was spotted over Montana yesterday — and is still flying over the U.S. Carla Sinclair

art The boundary-breaking animated sculptures of Tobias Bradford Popkin

twitter Elon Musk compared Twitter Files to a government Truth & Reconciliation Commission Thom Dunn

Japan Masaki Fujihata and DJ Spooky in conversation at Japan House LA, on December 6, 2022 Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Using AI to find open cameras recording near where Instagram shots are taken Elías Villoro

art Light and space artist James Turrell creating installation at children's school David Pescovitz

in living color Craig Walsh's "Monuments" art installation uses live trees to bring static impressionism to life Andrew Yi

artists Flea Market Follies: Hunting for Kitsch with Mitch O'Connell Lee Keeler

mistakes Department of Defense announces ambiguous and disquieting "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office" Rob Beschizza

Games Game tool company Unity announces $4.4bn merger with former malware bundler Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Get 4 useful Ashampoo programs on Windows for just $50 Boing Boing's Shop

art Artist and genetic engineers re-create the imagined scents of long-extinct flowers David Pescovitz

music Brian Eno fan? Listen to ten straight hours of radio programming about his career and music David Pescovitz