tools This low-cost contour gauge is very useful Jason Weisberger

Gadgets The Nordic Hygge AirChill is cold, portable room-cooling power that won’t blow up your electric bill Boing Boing's Shop

Games Play a "The Thing"-like monster in this free demo of Carrion Rob Beschizza

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

Bike nerd vs e-bike: wrapping it all up Dave Tolnai

fake news JFK Jr. murdered, Princess Diana murdered, and Prince George targeted by assassin, in this week’s killer tabloids Peter Sheridan

scholarship Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value Cory Doctorow

texas Witness the amazing beginnings of a 10,000-year clock build in this timelapse Rusty Blazenhoff

class war Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don't need to be screened Cory Doctorow

Copyfight European Commission spent 360,000€ on a piracy study, then buried it because they didn't like what it said Cory Doctorow

picks Oakland, CA launches ‘See Something, Say Something’ sex work snitch website Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Web companies can track you — and price-gouge you — based on your battery life Cory Doctorow

politics Watch Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, Mike Bloomberg speeches at 2016 DNC (Video) Xeni Jardin

drinks Kids getting wasted on hand sanitizer (still) Rob Beschizza

burning man Larry Harvey on Burning Man's race gap: 'Black folks don't like to camp as much as white folks' Xeni Jardin

offworld How card games became cool again Kim Nguyen

Science First near-Earth-size planet in “habitable zone” around sun-like star confirmed by NASA Xeni Jardin

family Isis Adventure: Worst. Puzzle. Ever. Ron Garret

Comic Books Giant book of scanned art from Jack Kirby's best comic book series: Kamandi Mark Frauenfelder

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow