Street Art Samauri: The Roller Warrior This resin art toy is off the hook — it’s a character made of urban mythology: Ishikawa: The Roller...
Retro Sofas This is a site of wondrousness and gorgeousness — and fairly serious price tags. But if I had the...
The Macabre Version of Carry-On Liquid Solutions I’ve always joked about airports and carry-on liquid security theater bullshit, especially when you drain the container into —...
The Gonzales Eight: Where Are They Now? I’ve been following along with the “Gonzales Eight”: a handful of U.S. federal prosecutors who were fired from the...
Genetically Fearless Mice I’m still trying to figure out what the benefit of this genetic mod could possibly be: in Japan, scientists...
Mafia Museum Being Built in Las Vegas Las Vegas is building a museum about Mafia involvement in that now oh-so-wholesome metropolis. Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former...
Monsanto v. Schmeiser, Schmeiser v. Monsanto Among the 2007 winners of the Right Livelihood Award, presented annually on December 9 to honor those “working on...
German Politician Withdraws Charges Against Wikipedia According to an article on Reuters and elsewhere, a left-wing German politician filed charges with the Berlin Police against...
Karlheinz Stockhausen Dies The BBC reports that German avant-garde electronic composer Karlheinz Stockhausen has passed away at 79. Stockhausen pioneered the use...
The BBC on UK Plan to Lay Broadband Fiber in Sewers BBC Technology’s Jane Wakefield reports on a plan to build a UK broadband network using the sewers: H20 networks...