santa claus USPS Operation Santa program lets people respond to kids' Santa letters with gifts Rusty Blazenhoff
law EFF to Facebook: enforce your rules banning cops from creating sockpuppet accounts and be transparent when you catch cops doing it Cory Doctorow
vaccination Entitled anti-vaxxers weasel around California law to dangerously enroll their kids in school Jason Weisberger
trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow
Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema
books To Do in L.A.: 'God's Eye View' author Barry Eisler in conversation with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin
weather Bridge collapse shuts down major California freeway after record-breaking July rain Mark Frauenfelder
Environment New NASA imagery reveals extent of tar on Santa Barbara beaches left by Refugio oil spill Xeni Jardin
An amazing first image of the sun from NASA's NuSTAR, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Jason Weisberger
canada Guatemala: state of siege declared as Army, police crack down after protests against Canadian-owned mine Xeni Jardin
guatemala Guatemala: Rios Montt genocide trial struggles toward completion as confusion reigns in courtroom Xeni Jardin
promoted Guatemala genocide trial: Day 6. "If I die, the story of what I lived will never be forgotten" Xeni Jardin
