fingers What finger counting reveals about you Rusty Blazenhoff

adorable animals "Babe, wake up, new panda rat just dropped!": Meet the Northern Luzon Cloud Rat Jennifer Sandlin

adorable animals The poor otter civet looks like it stuck its face into a wasp nest Jennifer Sandlin

Trump toadies Poor Rudy Giuliani melts down over new penniless status: "I have no credit card! I have no cash!" (video) Carla Sinclair

crows Crows can count and they do it out loud Allan Rose Hill

Funny BBC News anchor gives the finger during live TV broadcast (video) David Pescovitz

new york city The Transit app now provides a crowd-sourced "ratistical analysis" of the rattiness of New York City transit stops Jennifer Sandlin

batman Don't Say Gay: Georgia school cancels Batman comic historian's speaking event Thom Dunn

video games Someone made a custom GameCube controller with literal balls Thom Dunn

youtube Youtube millionaire MrBeast plans to recreate Squid Game Annie Rauwerda

Boing Boing Gadgets 13 courses that will teach you American Sign Language for just $35 Boing Boing's Shop

election2020 Biden elected president Rob Beschizza

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

punctuation Why semicolons are lovely and colons less so Clive Thompson

Safety One in 5,000 e-scooter rides ends in injury, half to the head Mark Frauenfelder

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

Business Debullshitifying Uber's financial statement reveals a hemorrhaging fountain of red ink with no path to profitability Cory Doctorow

futility closet The bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh Futility Closet

happy mutants Revealing the cover and first excerpt of Autonomous, Annalee Newitz's long-awaited debut novel Cory Doctorow

trumpism The Internet Archive's Trump Archive will ensure that Trump's U-turns and lies can always be challenged Cory Doctorow