History How to turn a freshly-felled 200 year old pine tree into eight radial beams for your medieval church spire Rob Beschizza

DIY This castle has been 20 years in the making–and it's not even finished yet Seamus Bellamy

video Watch how to make a wood table with a "river" of glass flowing through Andrea James

Technology Watch these robots measure and saw wood Andrea James

carpentry Making a wooden 8-ball on a lathe Rob Beschizza

carpentry Beautifully-shot video of a box being made Rob Beschizza

makers Artisans revive the polissoir, a nearly-forgotten woodworking tool Andrea James

happy mutants Mesmerizing animations of Japanese joinery Cory Doctorow

Book World Made By Hand is a post-pandemic world novel Mark Frauenfelder

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

Weird UK couple grows their own furniture from living trees Xeni Jardin

DIY This is Birdpunk, the intersection of DIY, environmentalism, and birdwatching David Pescovitz

b-side White House tells furloughed workers to exchange manual labor for their rent Carla Sinclair

picks Trump admin to unpaid federal workers who can't make rent: beg, barter, and get a lawyer. Xeni Jardin

usausausa Million-dollar lotto winner finally can afford a doctor visit, discovers he has terminal cancer and promptly dies Cory Doctorow

Business How DRM and EULAs make us into "digital serfs" Cory Doctorow

Alaska Photos of a family that's lived in near isolation in the Alaska wilderness for 18 years Mark Frauenfelder

tools The joy of air compressors Cool Tools

class war Robots vs the middle class: everyone's endangered, white people less so Cory Doctorow