fire Cartoonist makes webcomic about losing his home in the Calistoga fire Rusty Blazenhoff

gadgets The LOL verifier is a gadget that prevents you from posting "LOL" if you have not laughed out loud Rob Beschizza

experimental music Making music out of human speech Gareth Branwyn

Rock n Roll The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones reacts to the singles of March 1965 Gareth Branwyn

dellightful creatures These ibex have gravity-defying powers Popkin

tabloids The tabloids use news stories to mirror and amplify their own Weltanschauung Peter Sheridan

immigration DHS whistleblower claims he was instructed to exaggerate threat of Leftists and immigrants, downplay white supremacy Thom Dunn

trump Steve Bannon charged with fraud by NY prosecutor Xeni Jardin

facial recognition A toilet with facial recognition for your butthole Thom Dunn

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

happy mutants "A Fire Story": a moving, beautiful memoir of the Calistoga wildfire in comics form Cory Doctorow

Business Mark Zuckerberg's 15-year Facebook anniversary post dunks on journalism, omits Myanmar Xeni Jardin

christ what an asshole Here's the report that showed the FCC lied about being hacked and then lied about lying Cory Doctorow

bandwidth A web magazine you can read only if you turn off your wifi Clive Thompson

Beautiful, sad, and hopeful Web comic by a man who lost his home in the Nor Cal fires David Pescovitz

brain teasers Brain teaser: draw a cross inside the grid Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

photography How to make selfies look like portrait photographs Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants A new Bloom County collection of Trump-inspired reboot strips Cory Doctorow