Indonesia Buys Planes With Teeth
On this fine Armistice Day, what could honor peace more thoroughly than the news that Indonesia is buying a...
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“A Girl And A Gun” Doc on Women and Guns in America: Kickstarter Page Offers Cool Prizes
Girls and guns, what’s not to love? Okay I know that firearms are not for everyone, and that our...
A Boy Named Kilobyte-Floppy Webzine VAX Epoch Time Zero Phenomenon
One of the occupational hazards of writing a lot of fiction is that I frequently pore over baby name...
Los Angeles Mystery Missile Propelled by Whack Jobs?
Update 11/12/10: The above video was removed without explanation. The Illuminati again? Surely. But the Pentagon says it was...
Indian Journalists, Forest Rangers Battle Sand Mafia
You heard me. “Sand Mafia.” Forest rangers in Chandigarh, India were physically attacked this week by sand-mining mobsters for...
Take a Personal Voyage for Carl Sagan’s Birthday
Corduroy-jacketed übernerd Carl Sagan shuffled off this mortal coil in 1996, but today would have been his 76th birthday....
Six Flags NOLA Saved From the Meme Graveyard
Posts this past Friday on Gizmodo, Wired’s Underwire and many points in all directions of the compass celebrated the...
UK Man Charged With Obscenity For Private Text Chat
A Swanscombe man named Gavin Smith has been charged under the UK’s Obscene Publications Act based on a private...
Paramilitary Drug Gang PR Flacks Finally Get Their Public Image Under Control
Does good press really come from the barrel of an AR-15? Or is that just Silicon Valley? In an...
Diwali, Magic and Owls
An article in New Scientist gets me worried both about the future India’s owls and just what New Scientist...