My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is Thom Dunn, a frequent contributor here at Boing Boing! Read the show notes here. Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing contributor Thom Dunn interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast

Bruce Sterling posted this to his blog, but doesn't say where he came across it. His caption: "All Ages Show – especially you, punk grandpa."

A team of anonymous volunteers at MIT are developing a ventilator that can be built for $100, reports SciTech Daily. The MIT Emergency Ventilator (E-Vent) uses a hand-operated plastic resuscitator… Read the rest of the article: MIT designs a $100 ventilator for those who can't afford to buy the $30,000 version

Cory posted about Nitter "an alternative, free/open front-end to Twitter that ad- and tracker-blocks. That's very timely, as Twitter has just unilaterally obliterated all its users' privacy choices, announcing the… Read the rest of the article: Nitter is a new front end to Twitter that enhances privacy

I frequently refer to my copy of Robots! Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots, by well known animation designer and comic book cartoonist Jay Stephens. It's only 64… Read the rest of the article: How to draw robots – excellent instructional book

Last week David posted about the Aquarium Drunkard music stream and I quickly signed up on Patreon. I also listen to Chilled Cow, a streaming lofi hip hop radio show… Read the rest of the article: Hollow Earth Radio: "local music, found sound, paranormal encounters, crank calls, dreams, etc"

Introverts were enjoying the lockdown. Suddenly they had no social obligations nor the social anxiety that goes along with declining invitations, canceling them, or attending them. Introverts were reading, gardening,… Read the rest of the article: Introverts' joy of lockdown getting ruined by extroverts filling their schedules with video appointments

Have you ever read about an interesting app, only to click the link and find yourself on a GitHub page? If you're a coder, then you will be happy about… Read the rest of the article: What the hell are Git and GitHub?

Japan is under a state of emergency. Nippon wandering TV took an hour long bike ride through Tokyo's Akihabara district to reveal the nearly empty streets and sidewalks. Compare to… Read the rest of the article: Video of desolate Tokyo streets

Cory reports on a gem of a utility called Falsisign. Falsisign takes in 27 variants of your signature and then feeds these sigs and your PDF to it, with the… Read the rest of the article: Automating fake PDF signatures

Years ago, I read a bit of advice in The Whole Earth Catalog, which said a great way to get up to speed on a subject you are interested in… Read the rest of the article: Why Satellites Stay in Orbit: Cool 1964 kids' science book

In Rob Walker's fantastic newsletter, The Art of Noticing, he recommends an activity called "Narrate A Piece of Quotidian Footage" which is from his book: Basically, find or make a… Read the rest of the article: A fun activity to do at home: "Narrate A Piece of Quotidian Footage"

[NSFW] The Spice Channel was a softcore pornography cable TV offering in the 1990s. If you didn't pay for a subscription, you could still see scrambled video, which elevated the… Read the rest of the article: Clips of scrambled cable TV erotica from the 1990s

Martin Shkreli, the universally despised ex-pharmaceutical internet troll, says he can cure coronavirus if he is released from prison early, reports Ars Technica: “I am one of the few executives… Read the rest of the article: Incarcerated fraudster Martin Shkreli says he can cure coronavirus if he's released from prison

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, the incarcerated corrupt law enforcement chief who was fond of giving himself awards, campaigning against marijuana legalization, encouraging prison rape, wrongfully imprisoning people,… Read the rest of the article: Judge denies former LA sheriff Lee Baca request for early prison release because of coronavirus

The Daily Mail ran leaked a March 2015 audio recording' of medics looking for Johnny Depp's severed fingertip. In a 2018 deposition Depp says his wife at the time, Amber… Read the rest of the article: Listen to recording of medics looking for Johnny Depp's fingertip

"When the #coronavirus lockdown is lifted, we'll be closer to living in the world envisioned in the 1990s by the likes of @EFF, @WIRED, @stewartbrand, @rossetto, @janemetcalfe, @kevin2kelly, @2000_mondo, and… Read the rest of the article: How coronavirus is kickstarting the 21st century

Cory posted about 15 different public domain backgrounds you can use in conference calls. I like the space colony one (above). I use a number of different backgrounds when I… Read the rest of the article: Public domain Zoom backgrounds

The people who are under the impression that 5G towers are bathing the planet in death rays will says this video is part of the Conspiracy, but everyone else will… Read the rest of the article: 5G radio waves are a poor choice for death rays

If you are a fan of the book Thinking Physics, you might like this episode of The Action Lab, in which the Action Man tests "the laws of physics to… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you shoot a Nerf bullet backward while driving the bullet's speed