Hardcore Geek Scarification Some people get Apple tattoos, others lop off a digit to show allegiance — one thing’s for sure, when...
Wave Adaptive Silicon Valley Craft Spotted in NY The Hudson River today played host to Proteus, a new type of watercraft known as the Wave Adaptive Modular...
Twitchy-Tail Cat Iz Passed Out It looks (and sleeps) *exactly* like my cat. Must be the breed. The video is just a soothing, sweet...
Elastic Polymer Sheets Coated With Live Muscle Move The accompanying video in this New Scientist piece has to be one of the most incredible, exciting and sci-fi...
Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act Hear that search engines and social networking sites (like MySpace)? Scream it from the rooftops (NYT). Snip: A federal...
Pasty-Faced Punk Gets In My Face The Sierra Club Compass linked today to Greenpeace’s ad featuring a pasty-faced kid threatening us grown-ups for screwing up...
What’s The Worst Film For Tech Accuracy? (NASA Knows) This is the question currently being asked in the tech section over at the Guardian — and my personal...
Adorable Police Officers Sniff Out Pirated DVDs Perhaps the cutest cops in the world are being used to “zero in acutely on the smell of polycarbonate,”...
J. Craig Venter’s DNA, Decoded Yes, it’s *that* J. Craig Venter, local bazillionaire who seems to possess an uncontrollable urge to patent and sell...
Pie Charts Of Rock Star Death Causes The details on compilation are based on a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and...