Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wound up spending my weekend fixing broken things instead of preparing this week's resource suggestions.  So, at least for Monday and Tuesday, I'll have to show you that, instead.

Without getting into how it happens, my only Jeep key got broken, and the tip was lodged in the back end of the ignition cylinder along with a lot of packaging tape (not my fault, I swear).

I was (understandably) upset, and I had to get the Jeep moved in a very short period of time, lest it get towed.  I may have overreacted when I had the panel halfway removed and encountered tamper-proof torx screws.

Whoever invented tamper-proof screws is undoubtedly burning in hell alongside every DRM and copyright proponent.  In all reality, Taper-proof consumer goods are the material equivalent to DRM.

Also tamper-proof.  A friend loaned me his set of tamper-proof screwdrivers.

After considerable effort, I got the ignition control apart, took out the cylinder and tried to get the tip of the key out.  Eventually I gave up and brought the cylinder to my mechanic (whom I go to only after I get as far as I possibly can).  It took him 20 minutes to get the thing apart and back together.

Then I just made a couple copies of the broken key and reassembled the Jeep.

Also, my microphone stand broke (same guilty party as the key), and I replaced the broken piece with some aluminum from work.  It's not the only audio engineering problem I had with this weekend's main post, but it was one of the bigger ones.

Lots of fire and explosions, some cool engineering, chemistry, and physics.  Some decent ideas for someone trying to be secure in their information.  I'm not sure what more I need to say to introduce this resource.

Another novel finds its way onto the list of books I recommend for reading.  This one stands apart, though; rather than exploring the nature of free markets in an un-free world, or survival in a statist zombie apocalypse, today's recommendation is literally a story about A walk in the Woods.

Today's resource suggestion is a little odd.  It's a Facebook Group that every parent on Facebook should be a part of.  "Child Protective Services Victim Support Group"  Is a group founded by Carlos Morales, a former-CPS-enforcer-turned-whistleblower.  As Morales is prone to bring up in interviews, Child Protective Services is merely an extension of the DEA and a method of controlling the livestock population through the rhetoric that the state owns your children.
Anyone and everyone who has children can become the target of CPS for any reason.  Usually do-gooder neighbors calling out of concern, opting out of the nationalized healthcare system, or simply because CPS has quotas to fill.  The Facebook group is a point of contact between potential victims of CPS and people that know the system firsthand and can help sort through all the legal fictions in order to protect their children from the kidnap industrial complex.  Even if you're doing everything right by the state (which is horribly, horribly wrong), you may find yourself under the scrutiny of these people, therefore, you ought to be a part of this group and in-contact with Morales or someone else, just in case.

I still haven't figured out how I feel about Adam Kokesh, the man.  I know very little about his philosophical groundings, as well.  However, this is a paradigm case of Nonviolent Communication in action.

If anyone read the book (or at least my post about the book) and was skeptical of how it could possibly work, here is Adam Kokesh turning what would have likely escalated to the point that somebody would die into a deep intellectual conversation in which someone was forced to address the shortcomings of their worldview.

DON'T TALK TO THE POLICE!!!
This may seem a little extreme and forceful, but as my facebook news feed demonstrates daily, and as any defense lawyer with five cents and any cop with a conscience will tell you, talking to the police is going to end in one thing: the government will have more evidence with which to charge you with a crime and lock you up.
Yes, a recent resource suggestion showed a man talking to the police, and I gave him credit for it.  However, those men know what they are doing, the cop has been trained by those people to know exactly what he can and cannot get away with, and all three of them were willing and able to go to jail for having that conversation.  Are you willing to go to jail?  Watch this lecture, given to law students:

A young adult fiction book about an 11-year-old surviving the zombie apocalypse with a collection of skills learned from the Porcupine Freedom Scouts (a non-statist alternative to the Boy Scouts).  It's educational, fun, short, and sweet.  Oh, and Zombies.  These zombies are a fresh take on a very stale genre villain.

I have some small degree of insider information about the next few installments of the series, the biology of the outbreak, and the inspiration for the story.  I am certain the rest of the series will not disappoint.

The best part?  You can buy it with Bitcoin, here.

Or, you can buy it on Amazon if you're stuck in the legacy economy, here.