Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Marry Amid New Orleans Flash Mob, Celebrate by Staging Labyrinth With Sock Puppets There is a certain subset of the human race for whom viewing David Bowie’s performance in 1986’s Labyrinth was...
Meghan McCain’s Christmas Artillery You know, you find out some completely random stuff when you start leapfrogging around Twitter on Christmas. Having somehow...
Music For Music Nerds: The Chapman Stick Never heard of the Chapman Stick? You’re not alone. You could spend your whole life playing Armenian hammered dulcimer,...
A Techyum Christmas Part 2: Uranium. Yes, Uranium! In case you didn’t know, you’ve always been able to buy uranium ore for scientific and educational use. “Always”...
A Techyum Christmas: The UFO Detector for the Abductee On Your List You know, when you do your holiday shopping with Wikileaks’ mortal enemy, you discover just how many smart-asses are...
A Million Random Digits One of the projects of the quasi-government think tank the RAND corporation shortly after its formation in the 1940s...
Good Fun With Knothole-Grable Having enjoyed numerous evenings of relatively undisturbed sleep during the several months I’ve been writing a novel about pus-spewing...
Creepy Promotional Video for Dubai’s Dying “The World” It’s not especially fresh news that a business consortium in Dubai has been developing an archipelago of artificial, privately-owned...
Virginia Women Pwn Record for All-Female Head-down Formation Skydive Lindley Estes at the Fredricksburg (Virginia) Free Lance Star reports that a team from tandem skydiving outfit Skydive Orange...
New World Record On Totally Obscure Space Invaders Clone You know, I think Joystiq summed up today’s gaming-world fandango-in-a-teapot best when they said: It’s an inspiring tale of...