Ready to lay the smackdown on those e-vile terrorists, but not sure what you should wear? Cory Doctorow has the answer: this spiffy tee! Note: be sure to click on the image so you can read the small print around the image of the eagle. ZOMG! When I went to the web page, they were [...]

Really and truly. This man’s computerized hand and arm read the electrical impulses coming from the muscles in his arm that would have moved his biological hand, and duplicates the action. In other words: his mind makes the robot hand work. Watch the video, courtesy of AP.

I found this on 7 Deadly Sinners, which in turn got it from Threadless. I had no idea lungs were so important to the zombie diet.

This little piece of machinima by artist Robbie Dingo is literally one of the most moving things I’ve seen published on the InterWebs. And, on a different note, it also displays Second Life at its best. I was frustrated by Second Life because I tried to use it in my Comp. II class in the [...]

The gentleman on the right is Norman Borlaug, and he has just been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for being one of the principle architects of the “Green Revolution.” It’s not exactly the kind of “Green” you’re thinking; it specifically has to do with fighting hunger, not generic environmentalism. His work on improving wheat yields [...]

The good folks who brought the world the “World Without Zionism” conference in 2005 have now released a video game called (according to the AP’s crack translators) “Rescue the Nuke Scientist.” In the game, the evil Americans capture a pair of married nuclear scientists (?!), and it’s the job of the good guys (i.e. the [...]

Hey gang, updating with two good (and very different) places on the web to help you find markets for your writing. #1 — Mary Anne Mohanraj’s Collection of Literary Markets. This is a personal and very helpful assemblage of markets from a very busy writer. You may not agree with every single rating she has [...]