Kids How many basic knots do you know? A helpful guide to 7 of them Andrea James

Kids In one take, this guy shows all the cool skills he learned in 2016 Andrea James

how-do James Gurney made a neat 3D model from craft foam to help him paint a robot Mark Frauenfelder

Funny WATCH: How to be a totally awesome 80s model Andrea James

machine learning A new instructional video series from Google: machine learning foundations Mark Frauenfelder

V/H/S The Internet Archive has a treasure/trash trove of 20,000 VHS recordings from the 1980s and 1990s Mark Frauenfelder

makers I have an Arduino and Intro to Making class on Skillshare and here's a great deal on a subscription Mark Frauenfelder

puzzles Highlights from the Red Bull Rubik’s Cube World Cup John Struan

art Illustrator Mark Crilley's tutorial on adding shading to faces Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Just This Banjo: free/open banjo instruction for an angry moment, because you can't be sad while playing the banjo Cory Doctorow

animation One is a crowd when animating in Blender Rob Beschizza

Disney Imagineering In a Box: free instructional video series from Disney and Khan Academy Cory Doctorow

paintings Where did all of Bob Ross' paintings go? Rusty Blazenhoff

youtube Youtube's ban on "hacking techniques" threatens to shut down all of infosec Youtube Cory Doctorow

cgi A delightfully bad US Army animation starring a talking floppy disk (1985) David Pescovitz

puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Last chance to back the Kickstarter for our interdisciplinary seminar series on censorship today and in the Renaissance Cory Doctorow

surveillance Parolee arrested after making and posting video on how to remove ankle monitor with butterknife David Pescovitz

Business A 17-year-old is leading Michigan's Right to Repair movement Cory Doctorow

Funny Watch this bizarre Komputer Tutor supercut of the phrase "floppy diskette" David Pescovitz