jack black Inconceivable!: Celebs made a 'Princess Bride' home movie from their backyards Rusty Blazenhoff

useful stuff Buy this mysterious relic that inspires inconceivable dread and abject horror to those that behold it Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Bill Gates and the Royal wiretap scandal in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Boing Boing Gadgets This $40 app splits songs into instrumentals and vocal tracks like music magic Boing Boing's Shop

language Noam Chomsky on Nim Chimpsky and the emergence of language Thom Dunn

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

tabloids Daily Mail fakes own historical front pages Rob Beschizza

tabloids Prince Harry begs forgiveness, the Queen shops Prince Andrew to the Feds, and Kirstie Alley's secret life, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Entertainment Chicago to host "As You Wish!" a Princess Bride pop-up theme-bar Jason Weisberger

gun violence Here's a 1968 episode of The Dick Cavett show discussing the assassination of Robert Kennedy Mark Frauenfelder

Copyfight Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules Cory Doctorow

politics Trump pre-empts Israel's ban on Dem congresswomen with tweet implying he made them do it Rob Beschizza

death If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently… Cory Doctorow

trump Why the Trump DOJ argues keeping kids in cages is "safe and sanitary" Jason Weisberger

Trump is complicit 'Credible evidence' Saudi crown prince MBS directed Jamal Khashoggi killing, UN expert says Xeni Jardin

mistakes British conservative DESTROYS Ben Shapiro Rob Beschizza

politics WATCH: Trump claims 'coup' against him led by Mueller, 'I didn't need a gun' to defeat 'attempted overthrow' Xeni Jardin

usausausa To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush Cory Doctorow

scholarship Even if governments backdoor crypto, they still won't be able to spy on terrorists Cory Doctorow

trump Russian nerve agent attack may leave Skripals with 'limited mental capacity' Xeni Jardin