Gadgets Investigating nozzle-wear in 3D printers (with excellent cross-sections!) Cory Doctorow

scholarship Your old CD-ROMs are probably rotting Cory Doctorow

entropy Video compilation of people accidentally destroying expensive things Mark Frauenfelder

films Beautiful film of plates and glasses smashing to a Bach soundtrack David Pescovitz

Weird Watch this wondrous "house of cards" illusion about COVID-19 and our tenuous realities David Pescovitz

puppers Puppies in a bucket Rob Beschizza

security Computer historians crack passwords of Unix's early pioneers Cory Doctorow

security In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction Cory Doctorow

science fiction RIP, science fiction writer Vonda N McIntyre Cory Doctorow

Science Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper was just published David Pescovitz

videos Incredibly satisfying video depicting the meticulous, miraculous restoration of a ruined vintage Hot Wheels car Cory Doctorow

idiots in cars Jerk in truck refuses to let driver pass on freeway Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples' online accounts Cory Doctorow

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

cryptography How these lava lamps are securing the internet Rusty Blazenhoff

experimental music A delightfully odd kinetic sound and word making machine Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants A comic that profiles Columbia University's first-ever comics curator Cory Doctorow

Science Algorithmic decision-making: an arms-race between entropy, programmers and referees Cory Doctorow

backwards Video of a melting popsicle in reverse Mark Frauenfelder