post-pandemic playtime A child born in 2020 tries to get hand sanitizer out of a brick, and everything else, in adorable video Carla Sinclair

outbreaks Highly contagious norovirus outbreak hits 73 people on a Celebrity cruise to Alaska Carla Sinclair

air travel Orders soar at Airbus, which makes jets where the side doesn't fall off Rob Beschizza

candy Fruit Stripe Gum discontinued Rob Beschizza

rootin' tootin' showdowns Once again, Lauren Boebert makes a fool of herself on the House floor (video) Carla Sinclair

labor Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days Thom Dunn

Business Revolving sushi restaurants replace food conveyors with touchscreens after "sushi terrorist" pranks Rob Beschizza

tabloids JFK's second gunman, and alien life on Earth, exposed in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Food Kellogg ditching its cereal business heralds the slow death of sugar for breakfast Rob Beschizza

lawsuits FTC: Amazon tricked users into signing up for Prime and made it too hard to cancel Rob Beschizza

new york city New York City taking more steps toward congestion pricing plan Ruben Bolling

Japan Old Enough! is the post-pandemic palate cleanser I needed Grant St. Clair

Food Japan's 2022 "dish of the year" reflects a post-pandemic world Carla Sinclair

AI France uses Capgemini/Google AI to identify undeclared swimming pools, netting nearly $14 million from undeclared taxes Andrew Yi

jargon This Chrome extension uses AI to translate jargon into plain English Mark Frauenfelder

movies So they are making a Mortal Combat sequel after all Devin Nealy

retro Here's an old clip of Michael Caine talking about the working class Devin Nealy

Delightful Creatures Meet Mr. Happy Face, the first post-pandemic World's Ugliest Dog Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Too late for holiday shopping? Here are 20 gift ideas that don't require shipping Boing Boing's Shop

restaurants What $335 gets you at the fanciest vegan restaurant in New York Thom Dunn