More Proof that DMCA-style Copyright Laws are...

“This “innovations versus gimmicks” thing …...”
— Tycho (slightly paraphrased) 

“Organized minorities are always more powerful than...”
— Andrew Rasiej, founder of the...

More SCIENCE!! Tiny life forms: Nanobes

Nano-everything!

Transistors on modern chips are 10s of nanometers in size, just like viruses, but they also operate...

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics...

Best episodes of the new Doctor Who

After last season’s Doctor Who episode “Blink” (S03E10) won acclaim and awards,...

BMW's Shape-Shifting Car with Cloth Exterior

To anyone who doesn't understand...

This is a good series of audio episodes featuring the webcomic celebs from penny-arcade.com and...

The "Cruel Shoes" of Videogames

The irony here is unbelievable. How did the person...

New favourite joke

Science Fairs are cool

Fiction for the attention-deprived

Favrd

Anyone who doesn’t understand the service/site twitter.com that everyone is talking about,...

Ars Technica is now part of Wired (Ars Technica is a popular tech blog with occasional in-depth...

“The irony of being a procrastinator who writes about...”
— Merlin Mann

&: per se, and.

I recommend for everyone to read this

Fun thing to build if you've gotta few...

Apparently, former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold commissioned the building of a Difference Engine a...

10-Word WoW Stories

A contest: “write a short story, set in World of Warcraft, and this story must be precisely...

Here's a fun prank!

Convince a friend to buy, on his or her American Express card: 2 tankfuls of gas, then some flashy...

“Tact is the art of deciding between “not really interested”...”
— http://twitter.com/Remiel/statu...

“It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives...”
— Alex Jones? No. Richard Falk,...

a funny thing

So.. flickr.com, popular site for hosting & sharing photos. Started by Vancouverites, bought by...

African Proverb: If you want to quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Al Gore: We have to go far, quickly. (TED Monterey 2008)

“Earth and Venus are exactly the same size. They have exactly...”
— Al Gore -...

uninstalling on a mac

this is in response to a Q seen on pownce.com: “Help, Mac users! What’s the best way to...

Food Secrets

Word is the new Metal Gear has completely “westernized” controls (ie. easier), optional...

Ozzy Knows Best

Post-Awesome

"Koodo Mobile", which is advertising like mad in Canada right now, is Telus creating a brand...

The soot from burning candles contains buckyballs! (molecules of 60+ atoms of carbon arranged in...

Six word music reviews

Ayn Rand despised Pi, claiming it was...

Marathon

On a couple of podcasts this week Alex Lindsay talked about open-source Marathon that works on Mac,...

That tall diamond character, typed with option-shift-v on a Mac (on Windows… who cares!), is...

My Super Smash Bros Brawl friend code: 2019-9397-7247

My review of "No Country For Old Men":

Who ever says “friendo”? I mean, does that even make sense?

Want!

5 things we learned from Dungeons & Dragons

I’m not happy with any of the hundreds of RSS feed facebook apps for showing these postings on...

Ex-UK MP said it bluntly: This war on...

An hour and a half with Barack Obama

re TWiT episode 134

I was wanting mythTV to get these same RSS features that Dave Winer talked about. The idea was to do...

OMG, the xkcd guy’s blog is even more ridiculous than his 3x-weekly webcomic.

A run of funny postings at A Softer World (from this one forward, click ‘next’)

was impressed by this local band Portico Friday night

After taking role of Bruce Banner in upcoming Incredible Hulk movie, Edward Norton rewrote the...

This TED talk just blew my mind.

“I’ve never seen algorithms this complex.”
— A stupid line at the beginning...

“Hell tastes like chicken”
— FIST-A-CUFFS, a site I do not...

3 of these articles on storyboarding are...

Leo Laporte threw out an idea at the very end of Mac Break Weekly show #78: “I always thought...

The new name for Microsoft Points for XBox Live: Spacebucks!

High self-mo.

Dear Art Bell, George Noory and now Stephen Colbert: “Dimensions” are not places, they...

Stanton Friedman always impresses me, never...

Debunkers often say “extrordinary claims require extrordinary evidence”. But what about...

Overheard on the internet

Merlin - They’re trying to pick up cheap properties on the right side of the road. The big...

“SURF NAZIS MUST DIE is a bad movie. But it’s that...”
— Dr. Science on retrojunk.com

Even mini-er starwars lego!

I remember books like this

Better Than Free

The story behind the typography in Woody...

More “inside baseball” about movie...

“You’ve got what I call the Trouser Surcharge, which...”
— Merlin Mann on “MacBreak...

The Story of Stuff - teaser & full (20min)...

Interface Designer Edward Tufte on the...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show of...

(posting this a couple days late, I know.. or maybe it’s incredibly early for next...

Bassline Baseline, 2005

Can I Get An Amen?, 2004

leeni, AKA Colbert Girl, Electro / Indie /...

Merry Christmas to all (all who celebrate Christmas) and to all a good night (all who are not...

Impressive design highlights of the XO...

Why Low Def is the New HD

Lithium Ion batteries with ten times longer...

Movies - Ruining The Book Since 1920

“Ask me about my apathy. Or not. Whatever.”
— Jayson Dougherty...

Why did it take me so long to hook up my bookshelf speakers? Listening to Blade Runner soundtrack...

Pocket-sized dry-erase board :^)

Mutant Enemy Day on the L.A. picket lines

For sale: Daryl Hannah's biodiesel El Camino

This has been my best year. And in that best year, November - early December has been the best...

“I realised I don’t play games for the challenge. I...”
— http://penny-arcade.com

The Secret Government: The Constitution in...

A very impressive speech

I wanna go here!

"Oh... um, ground up and stored in the...

Dinosaur mummy!

Wherever you go you take yourself with you.

Suburbia repels me

Cheap solar power?!

Tweets like a stream of consciousness from...

The character David Puddy appeared in only 11 episodes of “Seinfeld”

Animal Crossing story

larrycraigslist.com

Another gamer emoticon

Unusual emoticons from game chats

“less QQ and more pew pew”

Fish can’t see water

Screen saver that displays images from...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

There's a secret, silly achievement in Half...

9 "errors" in An Inconvenient Truth analyzed...

“At Least the War on the Environment is Going Well”
— bumper sticker

“By “think tanks”, I mean people who are paid to...”
— Naomi Klein

More fun ideas to try on your street: flickr tag stopsign,...

“The Internet wasn’t designed for people to watch...”
— Larry Roberts

IT Conversations: Stewart Copeland

“It took us 5000 years to put wheels on our luggage.”
— William Mcdonough, Designer /...

don’t be surprised if Google is your new...

“That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky quoting P....

Facebook = road to transhumanism?

Web 1.0 home page -> dead end. Social network accounts -> Web 2.0 home page -> Avatar...

Voyager 1 is currently about 14 light-hours away, 3 times farther than Pluto, and travelling a...

“There is a fallacy oft-committed in discussion of Artificial...”
— Eli Yudkowsky’s Giant...

9/11 changed what? It changed what the white house could get away with.

Wow, I can't believe this works!

Facebook is the AOL of Web 2.0. AOL was a self-contained version of the 1-to-many internet...

PAX 2007 keynote by TV's / teh Interweb's Wil...

The Escapist - Zero Punctuation

The funniest thing I’ve seen since breakfast

Disseminating my insight throughout the...

Escapist Magazine's new video feature reviews...

Klein Bottle Hat with a matching Mobius...

NASA TV

Review of new cd by Darkest of the Hillside...

Almost in time for my birthday:

http://www.jetpackinternational.com/equip.html Model: Jet pack T-73 Estimated Flight Time: 19...

Go go Canadarm!

“if you say something stupid, and no one is there to hear it,...”
— Tycho

Opportunities wasted

Not only is the new “park” at Nelson & Mainland a cold, pointless brick...

Zap!

Greetings crime fighters, So, laser-optical installation no longer uses clumsy bionics! Instead my...

“They did find weapons of mass destruction, namely, the ones...”
—  Chomsky: ‘There Is No...

Fusion solved

Physicist Dr. Robert Bussard, ex-assistant director of Los Alamos, disses Tokomak fusion and reveals...

Sweet

Chaca-RON!

Canadian DRM action group

web app directory & button-style launcher for...

Inspirational articles was dugg this is the...

Canadian DRM Action Mailing List

If I knitted, I'd knit ninja

“I’m not going to say it’s the best science...”
— Orson Scott Card reviewing...

“‘I’m not going to use Mac because while it may...”
— GrahamCox on Slashdot...

“I don’t watch much much more music, but i watch more...”
— Dave Banks

“Creationists, your god is too small”
— Phil Plait of...