happy mutants Handless magician fools Penn & Teller Cory Doctorow

Technology Android 17 brings a customizable virtual gamepad to foldables Séamus Bellamy

movies Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie Grant St. Clair

Technology The obscure iPhone setting that eliminates car sickness Ellsworth Toohey

transformation Grandpa Pudding Brains pours peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm Jason Weisberger

History The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct Ellsworth Toohey

Weird Video shows a rain curtain splitting a street into two worlds Popkin

History Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision on the Olympic Ellsworth Toohey

music Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood" Ruben Bolling

mergers and acquisitions Fox buys the henhouse Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Buy Office and Windows once, then stop thinking about them for $35 Boing Boing's Shop

aviation A Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Microsoft Office 2024 is $105 for life—that's less than one year of 365 Boing Boing's Shop

video games I still don't know what Kingdom Hearts is about, but there's a new one coming Grant St. Clair

television Larry David's new HBO show is basically historical Curb Grant St. Clair

science fiction Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake Séamus Bellamy

Federal officer The FBI's protest-harassment fit has sponsors Jason Weisberger

Games Indie Nazi-hunting game looks a bit like a playable Inglorious Basterds Grant St. Clair

News Sam Bentley's June good news video is out and it's genuinely heartening Grant St. Clair

science fiction Mark Russell's new graphic novel explores the strange comfort of cults Gareth Branwyn