Kids Watch how to make a tin can with actual tin from scratch Andrea James

Gadgets Learn cybersecurity essentials on your own time at home with these classes Boing Boing's Shop

cats Samsung's TV boxes cleverly convert into cat homes and more Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets The Gryphon Guardian protects your home WiFi network — and protects kids from themselves Boing Boing's Shop

guns A fascinating computer analysis of the linguistic context around the 2nd Amendment Thom Dunn

tabloids Unstoppable plague, Doomsday is here, and Cruel Meghan, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History Powerful Iwo Jima WWII footage shot by marines in combat and never seen publicly David Pescovitz

books I'm re-reading The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Surveillance is the new blooming onion at Outback Steakhouse Thom Dunn

This is (allegedly) the original Star Wars Episode IX plot by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly David Pescovitz

happy mutants Boris the Babybot: a picture book about resisting surveillance Cory Doctorow

petard Privacy activists spent a day on Capitol Hill scanning faces to prove that scanning faces should be banned Cory Doctorow

Business The Supreme Court just heard the State of Georgia's argument for copyrighting the law and charging for access to it Cory Doctorow

poetry Woman discovers 'secret' coded message in John Milton poem 'Paradise Lost' Xeni Jardin

News Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches accepted as payment for parking citations Xeni Jardin

books The Internet Archive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars Cory Doctorow

class war When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: "face-scanning algorithm" gains popularity as a job-applicant screener Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned Cory Doctorow

mobile The Catalan independence movement is being coordinated by an app designed for revolutions Cory Doctorow

#standedatnarita No trains or buses from Narita to Tokyo after the category 3 typhoon = chaos for thousands Sean Bonner