Well, it's coming up to the holidays and I've started to make my list and fill it in. As a starting point, I went through all the books and DVDs and gadgets I'd reviewed on Boing Boing since last November

we discovered that the post-apocalyptic Wasteland in Bethesda's RPG Fallout 3 was about to get a little bit wider, got a glimpse of what a Criterion Collection for games might look like (props for the analogy, N'Gai!), and learned that

The current economic collapse is a difficult story for TV. It's a peculiar period in between an election and an inauguration. This most important story, this great-or-not-so great depression, is also the hardest for CNN to tell. I have more

Over on the Make blog, there's a great list of a bunch of Arduino kits, books, and add-ons. The Arduino open-source microcontroller platform can be programmed and equipped to perform a nearly endless list of functions. It's likely the best

According to an article in New Scientist, global climate warming may actually suppress plagues of locusts. One less thing to worry about, eh? Zhibin Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues have trawled through 1000 years of historical

Today at Boing Boing Gadgets , we told stories. John recounted how he was a pre-teen Christian supercomputer : Ever since I was ten, Colby has been a part of me, like a small, sentient circuit board lodged in my

The makers of the Whizzinator, a fake penis that dispenses fake, drug free piss so that you can beat workplace urinalysis tests, have been convicted of "conspiracy." They'll be sentenced on Friday. The BBC calls their operation a "fake penis

Quince is an oddly shaped fruit with a subtle, distinct fragrance. It's not something to eat like a pear but it looks like a knobby version of one. Quince needs to be prepared as a paste or jelly, utilizing all

Just spotted on Twitter (search: mumbai or #mumbai) and via chat sessions here in the Boing Boing tv studio: Attacks in Bombay (NYT), and here's a snip from the Times of India report: Terrorists struck at India's financial capital late

Google cryptographer and all-round security expert Ben Laurie's been blogging some great security thinking lately. Today he's got a really fascinating, thoughtful piece about the problems of passwords: So, where does this leave us? Users must have passwords, so why

Over at Offworld.com , Brandon "Shiny-Eyed Death Gnome" Boyer says, While we here at Offworld gather exclusive content for future editions of Offworld's BBtv transmissions, our second update is a status report, telling the wider world what we've been getting

I've just finished listening to Tony Benn's More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007. Benn was a long-serving left-wing British Parliamentarian who also served as Secretary of State and has been key in the anti-war movement. I was only vaguely aware

Glyn sez, "The flawed proposal to extend the term of copyright protection afforded to sound recordings, robbing consumers in the name of performers but for the benefit of the world's four major record labels, is being fast-tracked through the democratic

Behold! The Vulcan Ironworks sign on Cumberland Street in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1865. Such steampunky exuberance! Teresa sez, "I count wagon wheels, a plow, an anvil, what may be some wagon springs, a great deal of ornamental ironwork, a

Hugh sez, "We wanted to find out if three-star chef recipes were all they were cracked up to be, and if people like us (read - enormous geeks) could cook them. So we took one geek, one Gordon Ramsay recipe,

Master archivist Rick Prelinger sez, It's 1951, and America fears Communism and the Bomb. Since the Johnsons, a working-class Midwestern family, can't afford a Thanksgiving turkey, they decide to spend an evening writing up what they're thankful for, and share

Sour Harvest has a couple of sneak peek photos of paintings in Amy Crehore's upcoming art exhibition, Dreamgirls and Ukes. My solo exhibit at Thinkspace (February 13-March 6, 2009) is entitled Dreamgirls and Ukes. In this show, I will feature

My friend William Gurstelle is a frequent contributor to MAKE. He's one of the best all-around DIYers I know, has an intense curiosity about everything, and is really fun to hang out with. You can get a taste of this

Fun video about the fruit and people featured in Adam Gollner's wonderful book, The Fruit Hunters....

during the opening of a winter ice rink at Somerset House in London. The actress was not alone but together with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. The event will run until January 25 together with a partner [...]