gothic More virtual tourism: Take a tour of beautiful Bran Castle in Romania Gareth Branwyn

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

toys Create a fractal castle made of miniature copies of itself Rob Beschizza

Gadgets No programming skills? No design experience? GameGuru can still help create some bonkers video games Boing Boing's Shop

social distancing Idiots in the UK risk their community for the sake of socialization and bouncy castles Seamus Bellamy

pixel art Pixel art castle generator Rob Beschizza

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

toys Terrorise other beachgoers with the Beach Behemoth, a 12-foot beach ball Rob Beschizza

tackiness The most vomitous $10 million mansions on Zillow Mark Frauenfelder

Business Disney theme parks have a serious problem with cremain-scattering Cory Doctorow

happy mutants McMansion Hell's tour through Texas's Most Terrible fake castles Cory Doctorow

elections The Rich and the Normal Jasmina Tesanovic

tv Usagi Yojimbo animated TV show in the works Rob Beschizza

online amusements Make virtual sandcastles and enjoy them for a few seconds until they are consumed by waves Mark Frauenfelder

novels Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire Mark Frauenfelder

video Trippy fractal of classical architecture set to classical music Andrea James

architecture 100 of the coolest buildings in Los Angeles Andrea James

secret societies Author Brian Francis Slattery's favorite fictional secret societies Brian Francis Slattery

modernism Brutalist Sandcastles Rob Beschizza