picks Baking Skullzones, skull-shaped calzones, for Halloween or any time Xeni Jardin

earthquake Cal Berkeley put a crooked line on its new football field, to show it sits on the Hayward Fault Rusty Blazenhoff

television Larry David's new HBO show is basically historical Curb Grant St. Clair

News Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing Séamus Bellamy

science fiction Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake Séamus Bellamy

websites Website tracks protein meal deals for 171 cities in U.S. and Canada Rob Beschizza

water Lake Powell is approaching the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power Jason Weisberger

Dementia Don Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C. Jason Weisberger

art Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Jason Weisberger

treasure ship Mel Fisher's treasure hunters find another chunk of Atocha silver Jason Weisberger

minneapolis Minneapolis has been hearing unexplained booms for decades and nobody can figure out why Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Score 5 years of piano lessons with flowkey for only $80 Boing Boing's Shop

gaming Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers Grant St. Clair

Funny Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people Grant St. Clair

Boing Boing Gadgets Claude AI is having a moment — this $20 course helps you keep up Boing Boing's Shop

Internet An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Ellsworth Toohey

california Five men left a basketball game in 1978 and drove into a mystery Ellsworth Toohey

politics Giant inflatable Elon Musk appears in Times Square, protesting Grok's lack of limits Grant St. Clair

books In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity Ellsworth Toohey

Culture The first Tarzan pulp sold for $58,560 at a record-setting auction Ellsworth Toohey