music Watch this incredible recorder/beatbox performance David Pescovitz

Audio Ghost boxes, psycho-phones, and other devices for listening to spirits David Pescovitz

DIY Build your own bagpipes out of a trash bag and record and learn to play in quarantine Thom Dunn

Technology Hackers say they breached Russian contractor, got details on IoT hacking project for Russia spy agency Xeni Jardin

music Douglas Rushkoff on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) Douglas Rushkoff

coronavirus Pro basketball player who jokingly touched reporters' microphones tested positive for COVID-19 Mark Frauenfelder

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

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

Science A "Google Street View" for the natural sounds of remote Australia David Pescovitz

Gadgets This Device Turns Your iPhone Into a High-Quality Audio Recorder Boing Boing's Shop

collections Woman recorded 70,000 hours of news broadcasts Rob Beschizza

vinyl Cut your own vinyl records at home with this machine Rusty Blazenhoff

alcohol New bar where you pay by the hour to drink David Pescovitz

eff Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

eff A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition Cory Doctorow

Gadgets The Sony Walkman is 40 years old Rob Beschizza

spooks Undercover who targeted Citizen Lab over Israeli cyber-arms dealer is an ex-Israeli spook linked to black ops firm used by Harvey Weinstein Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Small Massachusetts town decides to spend $1.4m building its own fiber, rather than paying Comcast $500K for shitty broadband Cory Doctorow

Business What it's like to be a woman reporter on a cryptocurrency cruise where nearly all the other women are sex-workers Cory Doctorow

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn