santa claus USPS Operation Santa program lets people respond to kids' Santa letters with gifts Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Dozens of mystery Minions turning up in small Australian town (video) David Pescovitz

laugh so you won't cry Comic creates comedy gold, drawing on his experiences teaching elementary school Jennifer Sandlin

christmas National Geographic's 45-minute aerial tour of Christmas in Europe is pure holiday magic Rusty Blazenhoff

Boing Boing Gadgets A deal to be thankful for: Get a refurbished MacBook Pro and Microsoft Office for $450 Boing Boing's Shop

type Art posters from old "Rockford Files" Bob Knetzger

skateboarding Skate like a Girl's Wheel of Fortune returns to Seattle next month A.E. Gómez

Righting Wrongs Details around the return of beachfront property wrongfully stripped from a black family 100 years ago Jason Weisberger

Pee-Wee Herman Pee-wee Herman gets dream DJ gig on KCRW Rusty Blazenhoff

History Before it was a collector's item, PEZ was an anti-smoking device Thom Dunn

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

surveillance Multiple Amazon employees have been fired for spying on Ring owners' cameras Cory Doctorow

corporate bullies Caterpillar Inc. sends cease and desist to Cat and Cloud Coffee shop Mark Frauenfelder

Business Apple layoffs hit nearly 200 employees in self-driving car division Xeni Jardin

sourpuss neighbors A woman's Christmas dragons on her lawn were called "demonic" by a neighbor, so she added more Carla Sinclair

censorship 70 of the world's leading human rights groups ask Mark Zuckerberg to create due process for censored content Cory Doctorow

education UC Santa Cruz asks professors to rent their spare rooms to students who couldn't get housing guarantees Cory Doctorow

Business Topman plagiarizes designer, promises to stop, doesn't stop Cory Doctorow

design Fantastic demo of hand lettering with ingenious shadow effect technique David Pescovitz

racism City of Miami demands media stop showing photos of 6 officers fired in racist incident Jason Weisberger