offworld Sign, seal, and deliver mind-numbing form letters in this fun game Leigh Alexander

tabloids Melania Trump's smoking gun, and Mitch McConnell's short-circuiting brain, in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

When the "songs that make you smile" are Smiths instrumentals Elías Villoro

rap Lupe Fiasco to teach at MIT: "Rap is a Lossless Data Compression Algorithm" Elías Villoro

Real things you can actually buy Sh*t for Kids, Devil Milk Jug, and other (Nick) 'Cave Things' Rusty Blazenhoff

Vintage Weird The Johnson Smith Novelty catalog offered 600 jam-packed pages of vintage weirdness Mark Frauenfelder

tabletop gaming Tabletop gamers gift guide for 2021 Gareth Branwyn

Spoken Word with Electronics Listen to this 1946 informational on the wonders of post office work. Ethan Persoff

interviews Pandemic: An Interview with The Wire creator David Simon Danny Greenwald

baking Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

News Social security for all — for now Maureen Herman

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

canada Uber drivers in Toronto unionizing to take on The Man Séamus Bellamy

happy mutant The World's Smallest Post Service to open a magical brick-and-mortar experience in Oakland Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants One More For the Road: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats are back! Cory Doctorow

jordan peterson Jordan Peterson's gamma lobsters find a new low: defending censorship Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

photography Skies, a zine of landscapes shot from airplane windows Rob Beschizza

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza