music Cut and play your own vinyl records with this $81 machine David Pescovitz

Kids Turns out that a potato can be used as a camera, with predictable results Andrea James

Audio A brief documentary about the sensorial wonders of field recording David Pescovitz

music Recording metal on an Edison wax cylinder phonograph Andrea James

Audio Edit audio podcasts by editing the text transcripts David Pescovitz

recording $(removed) lapel clip-on microphone plugs into smartphones Mark Frauenfelder

music "Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy" David Pescovitz

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

Spoken Word with Electronics For triggers, gates, clocks, and sociopaths alike, "Master/Slave" faces retirement Ethan Persoff

music Saxophone played into an empty pipeline Rob Beschizza

police brutality North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——" Rob Beschizza

footage Area woman has black husband Rob Beschizza

Spoken Word with Electronics In Praise of THE SPAMP! And SPIT-COIN: A Proposal to Convert All Money to Saliva Ethan Persoff

puzzles My trip through the Starmaze: a world in the 9th dimension Jane Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics Space Aliens are no longer visiting Earth due to an allergy to our cell phones Ethan Persoff

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

police iPhone shortcut to record encounters with the police Mark Frauenfelder

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

Spoken Word with Electronics Behold, Massospora! The Insect Pandemic That Turns Cicadas Into Uncontrollable Sex Addicts Ethan Persoff

Gadgets This app puts a hi-tech spin on practicing with sheet music Boing Boing's Shop