christmas Rod Serling's 1964 retelling of 'A Christmas Carol' Rusty Blazenhoff

oceans What the Garfield telephones and mysterious metal spheres washing up on beaches reveal about our oceans David Pescovitz

christianity Watch: Michele Bachmann said she spent Christmas telling her 3- and 6-year-old grandkids that the "eternal fires" of Hell await them Mark Frauenfelder

bullying Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer's legacy Elías Villoro

tabloids Joe Biden's "dementia" and Ghislaine Maxwell's "shocking photos' in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

racism 'Complete sh*tshow': Drive-thru Dickens fair deemed a disaster Rusty Blazenhoff

Exclusive excerpt of three new Christmas Ghost Stories by Seth Mark Frauenfelder

law New beer too strong for some U.S. states Rob Beschizza

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

machine learning AI Christmas carol: "Mild is Rudolph" Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon's murder, and William Shatner's talking horses in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

media This week in the 'bloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Merry Mixmas: another mashed up Christmas with DJ Riko Cory Doctorow

futility closet The story behind the Christmas truce of 1914 Futility Closet

Boing Boing Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

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

Reviews Krampus trashes the horror potential of traditional mythology in a film that's neither funny nor scary Al Ridenour

Entertainment Ice Cube to star as Ebenezer Scrooge in new film David Pescovitz

Caffeine can really mess with your head Murray Carpenter