Yale Pranked After Police Tasing Yale Daily News reports that anonymous pranksters plastered Yale bulletin boards with “Get Tasered” ads today, in what the...
Blimps Across America? Update: Jane’s Defense actually published an interesting article on this topic shortly after this Techyum post. I find this...
Improbable Research and the IgNobel Prizes Last week, the IgNobel prizes were awarded. In case you’ve missed the Clue Train to Geektown for the last...
Wishing Jesus Into the Cornfield (With Aborted Fetus) St. John, Indiana, now sports the two things every state really needs: a life-sized walk-through Stations of the Cross...
Ancient Penguins 5 Feet Tall When you live long enough, the news begins to resemble H.P. Lovecraft. Just wait; you’ll see I’m right. The...
War of the Copterphages An epic battle is in progress for the soul (aka dollars) of the soooooooooper-high-speed attack helicopter market. Earlier this...
L.A. Times (Almost) Blamed by Union for Teacher Suicide A panel yesterday at UC Berkeley saw Los Angeles Times reporter Jason Felch discussing the paper’s decision to publish...
ZeuS Attack! £6 Million UK Ring and LinkedIn Spam Remember ZeuS? It’s a Trojan that steals banking information by keystroke logging, and according to the BBC, it’s still...
High Pressure Experiments Duplicate Conditions 1,800 Miles Underground As a dedicated Hollow Earth Nerd, I’m always fascinated by the idea of structures hundreds or thousands of miles...
Important Moments in Space Junk An MSNBC article about the launch last Saturday of the US Air Force’s Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite gives...