offworld Play a game whose entire source code fits in a tweet Laura Hudson

adorable animals Ferret snoring is the ASMR you never knew you needed Jennifer Sandlin

music Boring office workers perform epic orchestral tune on typewriters Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets This 13-in-1 media hub brings your favorite content to the big screen Boing Boing's Shop

china China is paying U.S. social media influencers to promote Beijing Winter Olympics and "good China-US relations" Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Step up your video-call game with these five HD webcams on sale for up to 90% off Boing Boing's Shop

Science It's fun to watch tardigrades squirm around on Twitch, adorably Xeni Jardin

bucket brigade Hong Kong protestors using mesh-networking messaging app to evade authorities Clive Thompson

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

Business The first-ever rigorous quantitative study of US artistic revenue from internet indies: 14.8M Americans earned $5.9B in 2016 Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Review: 8bitdo's Zero, a tiny wireless game controller Rob Beschizza

Internet Leaving kids in front of screens unsupervised for hours may have unpleasant consequences, parents learn Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Revealing the cover and first excerpt of Autonomous, Annalee Newitz's long-awaited debut novel Cory Doctorow

science fiction The Android's Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad

Boing Boing Gadgets Analog timekeeping: a clock built into a voltmeter Cory Doctorow

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Delightful Creatures How the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms and took over the world Brooke Borel

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery

drug policy Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari