How the UK Abducted Hitler’s Scientists This is a great piece — thanks to recently declassified secret documents — about how the UK snagged Nazi...
Vatican Launches Mistral Air According to BBC News, the Vatican has launched a budget airline with the intention of providing low-cost travel for...
Your E-Ballot Vote Is Not Private Voting in this country is such a joke, but not a funny one — it’s run by unsecure corporate...
Google Maps Embed: Now Available To Unwashed Blogmasses View Larger Map Google Blogscoped is such a guilty pleasure for me, like eating an extra lot of a...
Guinness Crowns New World’s Tallest Man About a month ago, I commented on the wedding of the world’s then-tallest man, 7-foot-9-inch Bao Xishun, in the...
Diebold Changes Name, Feels Much Better About Itself Farhad Manjoo over at Salon’s Machinist blog says it all so well, I’m just going to let him explain...
And When Will The 1337 Names Begin? Hacker Boy is at this very minute harassing me to put the “3” in front of the 1337, almost...
US Military Suicides Higher Now Than During First Bush War The title says the sad truth, snip: Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26...
Kids Are Way Safer Online Than With Uncle Jethro No, really. It’s an actual Security Focus study, not some sexual compulsive religious nut (I mean, another dubious study...
I Got Yer Flying Car Image of Virus via Pipistrel.si. NASA has named the winners of the Personal Air Vehicle Challenge to promote “personal...