tea party The world's deadliest teapot Devin Nealy

Weird Timelapse video of weird food cooking in an oven Popkin

Archie McPhee catalog celebrates 40 years of wackiness Bob Knetzger

austin The Museum of the Weird is a "strange collection of oddities" Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets X-ray scans of game controllers and other household items Rob Beschizza

hotels Diet water, melted ice cream, and other unusual room service requests David Pescovitz

oceans Creepy dolls, magic spell bottle, barnacle-encrusted bible, and other bizarre beach detritus to be auctioned off in environmental benefit David Pescovitz

oceans What the Garfield telephones and mysterious metal spheres washing up on beaches reveal about our oceans David Pescovitz

books In LA this weekend? Come to the California International Antiquarian Book Fair Mark Frauenfelder

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

Boing Boing Gadgets This refurbished MacBook Pro is yours for an extra 20% off this holiday season Boing Boing's Shop

tabletop gaming What's new in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

music The Pavement museum exhibition is real even if it's "sort of a joke" Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Create stellar animations with this top-rated software Boing Boing's Shop

meat "Quantities of intercepted bologna are so large it's hard to believe there are any pigs left in the world," says reporter about bologna seizures on Texas border Jennifer Sandlin

john waters John Waters hosts formal dinner in Provincetown dump Rusty Blazenhoff

finders keepers Uber's list of weird things people left in cars David Pescovitz

music Kurt Cobain's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" guitar and this weird caricature of Michael Jackson he drew are up for sale David Pescovitz

oscars There's nothing in the $137,000 Oscar gift bag I'd want. Here's my fantasy gift bag Mark Frauenfelder

Science Stephen Hawking's mindbending blackboard now on display at London museum David Pescovitz