england Own a legit British sign for "Battle Station" Rob Beschizza

law Beaver-branded Buc-ee's targets cartoon animal logos in lawsuit spree Rob Beschizza

politics PBS censors free speech documentary Mark Frauenfelder

photos How a 1937 hoax captured the imagination with giant grasshoppers Popkin

automotive Lucid Air: now with electroshock handles and pepper spray cannon Jason Weisberger

gadgets 50-year-old operating system ported to 30-year-old digital typewriter Rob Beschizza

texas Rather than regulate guns, Texas seeks to teach battlefield trauma care beginning in the third grade Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Get into PC gaming with this like-new Dell computer for under $600 Boing Boing's Shop

Joe Biden's "smoking gun" and Elvis Presley's "odd sex life" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

cars The fascinating free speech history of American license plates Thom Dunn

dyes Watercolor paint made from woad Rob Beschizza

china Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

fake news The Most Annoying People of 2017, in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

podcasts How debate changes minds, no matter who wins David McRaney

Business As social media centralized, blogging's core infrastructure has withered Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Beautiful, improbable, amazing electronic sculptures from Maddscientist39110 Cory Doctorow

china China loves the lingo of games Christina Xu

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow