Mean People Accusing them of laziness and stealing, a CEO conducts a 900 person round of holiday layoffs right after closing a huge fundraising round Jason Weisberger

ice cream Twin Pines' vintage ice cream clown is deliciously unsettling Popkin

internet culture A mystery DVD mailed from Poland hid coded threats in a plague doctor video Ellsworth Toohey

Technology A World of Warcraft bug accidentally created a virtual pandemic Ellsworth Toohey

gloating Grandpa Pudding Brains celebrates Supreme Court permission to be mean Jason Weisberger

Tasmania's favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land Jason Weisberger

youtube So that Saul Goodman return video wasn't just a one-off Grant St. Clair

The Mouth of Moron returns to explain that pond scum is democracy Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Deal Days has a 15-device VPN for less than $30 Boing Boing's Shop

websites The obscure airfields of America Rob Beschizza

Science Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

comedy Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime Grant St. Clair

art San Francisco's wind phone lets visitors talk to lost loved ones Popkin

movies Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour Rob Beschizza

comic book villains Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts Jason Weisberger

Funny Scammers are already using the hantavirus to fleece people Grant St. Clair

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

Science Decoding whale language could unlock new legal rights for them Ruben Bolling

war Iran has American theme bars because people are better than governments Jason Weisberger