Robot Bird Is Watching You Masturbate Ceiling cat, move over. Snip: A shape-shifting, robotic bird that can sweep through the skies without a peep has...
Death Toll Grows At Scaled Composites Rocket Accident Everything about this story is so amazingly sad to me; one of my personal heroes (and secret loves) is...
Another Reason I’m All For Making Second Life Into A First-Person Shooter Beware the “erotic dimension”! Jesuits urged to take God’s word to ‘Second Life’, snip: Catholic missionaries have always trekked...
Tech and Humanitarian Relief There have been an ever-increasing number of articles about how technology is changing “humanitarian work”, which actually is a...
Pimp That Box Maybe you’ve seen it before, but this Cassette Deck for the PC had me remembering that old Love and...
Congress: P2P Networks A National Security Threat “Politicians call peer-to-peer networks a ‘national security threat’ because they enable federal employees to accidentally share sensitive or classified...
Duped: Understanding Lies, With Brain Scans This New Yorker article by Margaret Talbot about lying and brain scans is one of the most entertaining things...
The Piston Ring Museum Online This great online learning museum about the role of piston rings in a variety of engines and applications is...
The Piston Ring Earthquake: Big Japanese Automakers Shut Down A quick post on Salon touched on this last week, but it looks like things aren’t getting any better...
Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook Uh oh. I’m not really “on” Facebook, but a lot of my friends are. (Aside: anyone have an extra...