Disney Mickey Mouse is a mutant — "always a reflection of the culture around him" Mark Frauenfelder

offworld How we developed a black woman protagonist who mattered Catt Small

Games 007: First Light review: From Denmark with love Grant St. Clair

websites Make your own futuristic computer logo with the Sinclair-o-Matic Rob Beschizza

books Here's a terrific search hack for the Internet Archive Book Images Flickr photo stream Jennifer Sandlin

Science Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance Rob Beschizza

music This weird bowed instrument sounds disturbingly like a person Popkin

Technology A Silicon Valley startup wants to sell you a brain-reading beanie Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Frank Oz returns to puppetry with webseries Judge… Boing Boing? Ruben Bolling

Boing Boing Gadgets This $80 Chromebook is built for low-stakes computing Boing Boing's Shop

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn

trump Trump Library design announced with AI slop video Rob Beschizza

Games Top devs share their placeholder art to prove you don't need AI Rob Beschizza

Food Each slice of this bread loaf reveals a hidden creature inside Popkin

lawsuits Lawsuit claims protein bars have nearly twice the claimed calories Rob Beschizza

Entertainment Universal Orlando's Spider-Man ride is 27 years old, but looks and feels brand new Ruben Bolling

art Frazetta painted the clothes off Vampirella, sold the result for $3.1M Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Google's Gemini told a man to kill himself Ellsworth Toohey

kickstarter Two surreal sci-fi graphic novels from Scavengers Reign artist Jonathan Djob Nkondo launch on Kickstarter Gareth Branwyn

scouts Pentagon forces Scouts to out trans kids, calls it "returning to values" Jason Weisberger