Delightful Creatures These red crabs raise their claws and shake out their eggs in gorgeous video Carla Sinclair

invention Vehicle outfitted with "shoes" to avoid crushing Christmas Island crabs Rusty Blazenhoff

muppets How good would a Muppets version of your favorite movie be? Grant St. Clair

Science Holiday sale on the Voyager Golden Record 3xLP box set David Pescovitz

tabloids Scientology's secrets, Kardashian brain damage, and Chinese bioweapons in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

santa claus 10-year-old asks for a DNA test on a cookie allegedly bitten by Santa to prove if he's real or not Rusty Blazenhoff

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

History "The Christmas Uprising" in Jamaica, 1831, heralded the end of slavery in the British Empire Elías Villoro

happy mutants My Life on the Road: Farewell to the Chill Séamus Bellamy

crabs Watch: A huge robber crab doesn't want to give a man's golf club back, snips it in half Carla Sinclair

Boing Boing Gadgets Take advantage of 37 great early Black Friday deals on products for everyone on your list Boing Boing's Shop

animals Millions of migrating crabs trigger road closures David Pescovitz

racism The Silent Suffering of the Asian-American Maddie Lee

futility closet In 1817, a young woman claiming to be a kidnapped Eastern princess appeared in an English village Futility Closet

fox news Watch Tucker Carlson's bizarre Friday the 13th monologue about Patriotic Optimism Thom Dunn

shopping Last year for Britain's legendary Argos Catalogue Rob Beschizza

music Watch Dr. John and Leon Redbone perform "Frosty the Snowman" David Pescovitz

fake news Back to the future with this week's time-traveling tabloids Peter Sheridan

books The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games Rob Beschizza

happy mutants How do we fix IoT security without blocking interoperability and creating monopolies? Cory Doctorow