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...
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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...
Error Message Haiku Technical Paper (In Haiku)
It’s from 1999 (five hundred internet years ago), but it’s still pretty kewt — and I know will only...
NASA Robotics Software Now Publicly Available
I’m a bit behind on blogging this but it’s still new and exciting news to me: last month NASA...
Tattoos Meet Disappearing Ink
Would you get a tattoo with removable ink? I’ll admit to having one tattoo I wished I’d done that...
Senate Fucks Shit Up For TV, Restores Anti-Indecency Measure
Who watches regular TV anymore, or listens to the radio? Probably just our elected officials and a smattering of...
Pink Tools: Part Four
Okay, I’ll go there. I hate to say, and it’s likely for the opposite reasons they’re marketing to me,...