A Million Random Digits One of the projects of the quasi-government think tank the RAND corporation shortly after its formation in the 1940s...
Good Fun With Knothole-Grable Having enjoyed numerous evenings of relatively undisturbed sleep during the several months I’ve been writing a novel about pus-spewing...
Creepy Promotional Video for Dubai’s Dying “The World” It’s not especially fresh news that a business consortium in Dubai has been developing an archipelago of artificial, privately-owned...
Virginia Women Pwn Record for All-Female Head-down Formation Skydive Lindley Estes at the Fredricksburg (Virginia) Free Lance Star reports that a team from tandem skydiving outfit Skydive Orange...
New World Record On Totally Obscure Space Invaders Clone You know, I think Joystiq summed up today’s gaming-world fandango-in-a-teapot best when they said: It’s an inspiring tale of...
Around the World in an Autogyro for Social Networking and Bowel Cancer Northern Irish pilot and cancer survivor Norman Surplus is back home in Larne, Northern Ireland, after surviving a crash...
Mexican Surveillance Drone Crashes in El Paso Despite the hard border between the US and Mexico, El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico, are so intimately intertwined...
Facebook Threatened With Contempt of Court Facebook failed to send a lawyer to Sacramento Superior Court in answer to a subpoena yesterday — leading Judge...
Yahoo Shutting Down Delicious, Merging Upcoming, etc. etc. etc. etc. Tipped off by a leaked slide from a product team meeting, TechCrunch reported that Yahoo’s layoffs of more than...
Wednesday Night at the Gun Nut Hut: The FN Five-seveN For what it’s worth, I am deeply suspicious of all the high-tech, newfangled stuff these gun manufacturers are coming...