Michael from Muckrock sez, "Advanced cell phone tracking devices known as Stingrays allow police nationwide to home in on suspects and to log individuals present at a given location."

The Haynes Build Your Own V8 Engine ($65.62) sounds fantastic — the lengthy selection of positive reviews confirm the manufacturer's claim that a "talented 10 year old" could assemble it,… Read the rest of the article: Build your own working tabletop V8 engine

Moon, Galaxy and Earth: $7.68 each — lots of good reviews, too! (via Canopy)

Pissedconsumer, a website that's being sued by a supplements company called Roca Labs whose diet aids come with terms-of-service that prohibit complaining about them, has filed its opposition to Roca's… Read the rest of the article: Right to complain: fighting back against Roca Labs

Stasi — Secret Rooms is a 10-year project by Daniel and Geo Fuchs, who took beautiful, striking photos of the stark interiors of the spaces used by the Stasi, the… Read the rest of the article: Photos from Stasiland

Tony Abbot's given a speech warning Australians that the police state is inevitable, saying there would be "more restrictions on some so that there can be more protections for others."

Shipping in summer 2015, Qwerkywriter is a $300 computer keyboard that uses mechanisms that mimic the keys of an old-fashioned manual, mechanical keyboard.

That Disney Lover's created a set of Haunted Mansion stretch gallery portrait mashups featuring the paintings from Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor (originals here) and characters from Disney animated features; the… Read the rest of the article: Phantom Manor stretch portrait/princess mashups

The vintage-y war-propaganda poster imploring you to DONATE A SOCK – FREE HOUSE ELVES! comes in sizes from 8"x10" to 24"x36" ($15-$38) from Entropy Trading Company, who have an extensive… Read the rest of the article: Donate a sock – free house elves!

Patrick Nielsen Hayden uses an exceptionally silly Guardian op-ed about New York City as a "dangerous, intoxicating fantasy of freedom from nature" to extol big cities' environmental virtues: places where… Read the rest of the article: Urban living and carbon footprints

Scott Westerfeld's latest novel, Afterworlds is a book about a teenager who's just sold her first book. It's a story-within-a-story, and it works brilliantly. Cory Doctorow unpacks the nesting tales of Darcy Patel and Elizabeth Scofield.

Becky writes, "Shrinking Space productions have transformed the vast and dilapidated market building at Circus St in Brighton, UK into an audiosphere representing the entire solar system." When you enter… Read the rest of the article: Tour the solar system by walking around a huge, dilapidated building

Lauren Beukes's latest crime/horror novel Broken Monsters marries the snappy, hard-boiled cleverness of her 2010 novel Zoo City with the visceral horror of 2013's The Shining Girls and yields up a tale that's as terrifying as it is contemporary — Cory Doctorow reviews Broken Monsters.

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Illustration from the pentecostal youth magazine Christ's Ambassadors, October, 1926

"One Night" because taking enough of it will make this night your last. this is your periodic reminder that old-timey medicines did not fuck around (via Seanan McGuire)

Once, there was a golden age — not a golden age of martial arts, certainly, but a golden age of easy copywriting employment for anyone with a penchant for florid… Read the rest of the article: Do you even Yubiwaza?

The Copper Cylinder Prize, voted on by members of the Sunburst Award Society awarded best YA novel to Homeland; best adult novel went to Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars.

Apple's new Ios privacy policy makes some bold promises about their technology's wiretap-resistance, saying that even if Apple wanted to snoop on your messages, they couldn't, but as EFF co-founder… Read the rest of the article: Reasons (not) to trust Apple's privacy promises

A large and very up-to-date archive of Aaron's government files, extracted through Freedom of Information Act requests.