law Family of teen raising money to rescue her from pray-the-gay-away "boarding school" Cory Doctorow

Welcome to Gilead Kenneth Copeland's Christofacist "Watchman Decree" is straight out of The Handmaid's Tale Mark Frauenfelder

Funny Gentleman gives fake name to police even though real name is tattooed on his neck David Pescovitz

censorship We don't know how much Village Roadshow paid to buy Australia's new censoring copyright law Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Best Buy doing unexpectedly well in the age of Amazon Rob Beschizza

happy mutants How a kid cartoonist avoided Scholastic's digital sharecropping trap Sasha Matthews

art Trippy 'Krofft Super Art Show' opens in LA Rusty Blazenhoff

life on earth Lichens never looked more beautiful than they do in this short film about a curator of lichens at the University of California. Mark Frauenfelder

Business Canada upholds net neutrality, bans zero-rating Cory Doctorow

books The best young adult literature from 1967 Joshua Glenn

racists California lawmakers reject "John Wayne Day" because John Wayne was a racist creep Mark Frauenfelder

movies Excellent mashup: "It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road" Mark Frauenfelder

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery