security Singapore healthcare provider breached, personal records of 1.5m people – including the Prime Minister – stolen Cory Doctorow

security Hackers say they stole tens of thousands of health records of Ontario home-care patients and they want to get paid Cory Doctorow

security NHS okays hospitals and doctors storing patient data on public cloud servers Cory Doctorow

drm HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza

Barbie movie Evangelicals rail against Barbie, demand Americans not take children to see film Jennifer Sandlin

music Watch Kurt Vile and John Prine perform Prine's "How Lucky" Jennifer Sandlin

light I joined the great LED Lightbulb debate on the Brian Lehrer Show Thom Dunn

museums Ten punk museums and exhibits around the globe David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Bring some color into your life this spring with the Nix Mini Sensor V2, now only $59 Boing Boing's Shop

politics The Southern Strategy of Christian privilege Elías Villoro

corgi Watch this adorable corgi howl when she eats Jennifer Sandlin

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

airports Man who inspired "The Terminal" died in airport where he lived for 18 years David Pescovitz

ice bucket challenge ALS drug funded by Ice Bucket Challenge finally wins FDA approval Andrew Yi

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

enslavement Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas A.E. Gómez

BREAKING BAD Gus Fring on how to iron a shirt and Lalo Salamanca on how to make taco Rusty Blazenhoff

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

passings Olivia Newton-John, RIP (1948-2022) Mark Frauenfelder