happy mutants The Women's March and the Judean People's Front: After Occupy, after trumpism, a new networked politics Cory Doctorow

science fiction Jeff VanderMeer's "Absolution" is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy Thom Dunn

israel Manufactured "Israeli-Palestinian" boy band is in really poor taste Thom Dunn

politics Trump's buddy Lewandowski once again shown the door Jason Weisberger

Audio Master recordings of 90s music on slowly dying media Thom Dunn

photos How a 1937 hoax captured the imagination with giant grasshoppers Popkin

weather Chaos unfolds when costumed amusement park characters run through a typhoon Popkin

search Wayback Machine integrated into Google search Gail Sherman

Science Spider species 'Hotwheels Sisyphus' named for genitalia Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets This MacBook Pro's Touch Bar helped me skip through annoying ads Boing Boing's Shop

music First new music from Mozart in 250 years Allan Rose Hill

air travel Couple's $2K ordeal: Airline rejects passport over small coffee stain Mark Frauenfelder

trump Trump's incoherent rambling on inflation solutions raises concerns Ellsworth Toohey

whatsapp Passenger kicked off world cruise for WhatsApp complaints Mark Frauenfelder

TV shows New book looks back on things we lost since LOST premiered 20 years ago Thom Dunn

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

sports People in Philly take fantasy football far too seriously Jason Weisberger

crypto How "crypto bros" appropriated Flappy Bird Rob Beschizza

adorable animals Wilbur the woodchuck is a sneaky, but adorable, thief Jennifer Sandlin

fantasy Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition Gareth Branwyn