Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa In case you haven’t noticed yet, at least one Techyum contributor has been making a pig of himself with...
American Scary American Scary is a fun, fascinating, wacky new documentary about the all-American tradition of horror movie hosting. From my...
Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies In her Livejournal, anthology editor Ellen Datlow links to this Centripetal Notion gallery (which Cory Doctorow also blogged at...
Starbucks PWNED by Bejing’s Forbidden City Reuters reports that The Forbidden City coffee shop has opened in the former Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. It...
$100 Laptop Offered to US Consumers (not for $100) BBC News reports that for a limited time the One Laptop Per Child Project will be selling the “$100...
First Lawsuit Filed To Enforce Open Source License It’s called “open source” software for a reason. But it looks like one company might not be paying attention...
On Becoming Shock-Resistant There’s a bit of blogging going on about Naomi Klein‘s new book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster...
H.G. Wells Stage Festival in NYC The following is from Fangoria… oh, how I wish I lived in NYC sometimes. Halloween kicks off early this...
Nine New Ebola Cases in Congo The BBC reports that nine more cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;...
Wikipedia: Only As Full of Shit As You Are, Professor One of my favorite science publications, New Scientist, drops the ball in a big way in this article on...