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

drugs Drug lord "El Mayo" collared at rural airport in New Mexico Rob Beschizza

surveillance USPS nearly always lets law enforcement spy on Americans' mail without warrant Natalie Dressed

united airlines United Airlines' Christmas movie "Love in Plane Sight" is as awful as you'd imagine Jennifer Sandlin

real estate This perfect reproduction of a Wild Western town can be your cowboy cosplay retreat for just $3.7 million David Pescovitz

museums Happy International Museum Day! Jennifer Sandlin

PEZ PEZ originally marketed as smoking cessation aid Clive Thompson

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

Kids Watch massive machines lift and dump contents of an entire train car Andrea James

Robert Anton Wilson A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography Ferdinando Buscema

videos How it feels to be under DDoS attack Cory Doctorow

dupe Internet Talk Radio: Podcasting Like It Was 1993 Boing Boing

videos Archives of pioneering "Internet Talk Radio" Cory Doctorow

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

NASA New NASA imagery reveals extent of tar on Santa Barbara beaches left by Refugio oil spill Xeni Jardin

LA sushi chef who served illegal whale meat sentenced Mark Frauenfelder