picks Watch this timelapse of a guy single-handedly building a log cabin the woods Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets The Marshall Mode EQ earphones are everything you’d expect from the Marshall name Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets 30 items on sale for Memorial Day that'll improve your home and beyond Boing Boing's Shop

miniatures The tiny worlds of "micro-mechanician" Bill Robertson Gareth Branwyn

Technology Zoom transmits your info through China, and uses non-standard encryption, researchers say Xeni Jardin

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Bigfoot sighted, the Queen’s $1 trillion tax bill, and coronavirus targets the stars, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Trump and Apple's Tim Cook to meet at Davos Xeni Jardin

brazil Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels Cory Doctorow

star wars Own this massive Millennium Falcon bouncy house, or not Rusty Blazenhoff

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

web theory Kentucky's governor insisted that investment bankers could provide broadband. He was wrong. Cory Doctorow

youtube Horace Goes Copyright Striking Rob Beschizza

Games Review / Control Rob Beschizza

high fashion NASA unveiled a new spacesuit that's flexible enough for dancing John Struan

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

cryptobattles Rap battle between Alexander Hamilton and Satoshi Nakamoto over Bitcoin Clive Thompson

futility closet Richard Proenneke lived alone for 30 years in the Alaskan wilderness in a cabin he built himself Futility Closet

DIY Pallet wood cabin Rob Beschizza

Technology This TV only looks old, it's really a 20" LCD with modern inputs Rusty Blazenhoff