Great idea over on Kickstarter for the first foldable cargo box for your bicycle. Unfortunately for me it requires a rear rack, which my bike doesn't support, but I imagine many folks finding this useful.
The campaign ends this week so hop on it if you're keen.
Idehen's terrific music video explaining communism, fascism, liberalism and many other isms. Clever and cheeky.
The BBC has opened up its sound effects library. Everything free to download — more than 33,000 sounds!
via The Quietus
"Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor."
Samuel Hughes' piece for Work In Progress explores this idea.
"I want to sit for _____ minutes" is the idea behind Sit.
Sit is Rafal Pastuszak's site for doing nothing. It's a good'n.
Since 2010, Docastaway has sent travelers to deserted islands with no training, no company, and few supplies. And business is booming.
Interesting read here.
Jen Rose Smith
For the next week or so you can back the Demon Box on Kickstarter.
Step into a new dimension of music with the Demon Box from Eternal Research, your gateway to the unseen and unheard frequencies that surround us. By harnessing electromagnetic fields (EMF), this revolutionary analog instrument unlocks the existing music hidden in everyday things and experiences – turning anything from a hairdryer to a cell phone into music.
In Today's Reason to avoid Social Media: Report Finds Social Media Companies Engaged in Vast Surveillance.
"The report lays out how social media and video streaming companies harvest an enormous amount of Americans’ personal data and monetize it to the tune of billions of dollars a year..."
This site has been around forever and I've always found it rather neat: a searchable database of all registered dog names in NYC.
Trying to choose a name for your new friend? See how common it is in NYC, which is probably a good way of gauging how common it is in general.
You'll notice that there are no Shakedowns. There wasn't when I named her 12 years ago, either.
In May, Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti wrote The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel (gift link). It's an excellent read.
If you prefer to learn by listening, today, the NYTimes podcast The Daily, did an interview with Bergman that breaks it all down into an easily-understood timeline. It is a great primer on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and I encourage you to listen to it.
If you're done with that and looking for more, check out The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017 by Rashid Khalidi.
