art Star Wars fans: You have to see this animated ASCII remake of Episode IV Rusty Blazenhoff

trump Joe Scarborough in WaPo Op-Ed: The slimy tsunami of bilge spewing from President Trump is hurting innocent people Mark Frauenfelder

useful stuff The time I risked my life borrowing a Draft-Matic Mechanical Pencil Mark Frauenfelder

electronic music Gorgeous new song by DC's Beauty Pill Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets This palm-sized thermal printer can print up your photos in seconds, all without any ink Boing Boing's Shop

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

gender This gender reveal could benefit from some social distancing Thom Dunn

sci fi The entire Animorphs book series is now available for free online Thom Dunn

Gadgets Launch a kid’s STEM career with a game console they can build themselves Boing Boing's Shop

Japan Kapibara-san, Capybara plush toys from Japan Rob Beschizza

tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

science fiction Nerding out over sci-fi spaceship designs at the Spacedock Gareth Branwyn

cartoons Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Trump wants 25% cut in US military fund to deter Russian aggression Xeni Jardin

History Man in 1937 painting appears to be staring at a smartphone David Pescovitz

climate Amazon threatened to fire two tech workers who spoke about climate and Amazon's business, then 357 more workers joined them Cory Doctorow

books I'm re-reading The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession Mark Frauenfelder

Games Current chess champion Magnus Carlsen is also one of the top fantasy soccer players in the world John Struan

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

trypophobia Is trypophobia a social contagion? Rob Beschizza