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Researchers: Ron Paul campaign e-mails...

Ron Paul appears to have an almost cult-like following online, but how much of that appearance is...

Nov 1st

Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the...

An anonymous reader writes “A recent unfortunate casualty of anti-terrorism laws is the home...

Nov 1st

New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea

mattnyc99 writes “PopularMechanics.com takes a peek into the growing world of high-tech piracy...

Oct 31st

Mac trojan in the wild

Malware for OS X is rare, but here’s a new trojan that Mac users should be know about: A...

Oct 31st

Five Things Yahoo Search Can Do That...

Did you know that you can jump straight to a Wikipedia search or start composing an email directly...

Oct 31st

NBC President: Apple iPods Sold On The...

Much fuss has been made over NBC’s belief that iTunes is turning a “dollars”...

Oct 31st

Dough-Nu-Matic Automatic Doughnut...

The culmination of American consumer electronics: the $130 starch-and-sugar-dispensing...

Oct 31st

Fisker Automotive trots out pictures of...

We wrote about Fisker Automotive’s sporty plug-in hybrid last week and now here is a picture. ...

Oct 31st

Blogger Wins 1.5 Year Legal Battle

FixYourThinking writes “After nearly one and a half years of harassment from a relentless...

Oct 31st

Google goes after Facebook with new...

Google plans to launch a set of web-based APIs tomorrow that will allow other social networks get in...

Oct 31st

Can bloggers be journalists? Federal...

Journalists aren’t defined by a title but by what they produce, and a recent federal ruling...

Oct 31st

Google Working With Verizon?

Googlephone anticipation continues to build, with the latest fuel coming from reports of talks...

Oct 31st

EVIL camera: Not Actually Evil

I’m way for any product that has “evil” in the name, but it turns out the EVIL...

Oct 31st

Free Documents at DocStoc [Document...

Need a template for your business plan, a tutorial on Python programming, or a copy of the...

Oct 31st

Speaking through spokes on bikes

(Credit: Everything USB) As cyclists continue to assert their equal rights on the road, their...

Oct 31st

Google Begins "Gmail 2.0"...

Stony Stevenson writes “Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. This blog...

Oct 31st

$200 Everex Green PC Now Available

Everex’s TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom...

Oct 31st

October '07's Most Popular Posts [[this...

Happy Halloween! Lest you missed any good Lifehacker this month, here’s a quick list of...

Oct 31st

Report: Google's Linux-based mobile...

A new report says that a formal gPhone announcement will be coming as soon as November, with the...

Oct 31st

Get lost: a Google 411 and Microsoft...

Ars puts Google 411 and Microsoft’s LiveSearch411 to the test to find out which one offers the...

Oct 31st

Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds

Ponca City, We Love You writes “Bite a hot pepper, and after the burn your tongue goes numb....

Oct 31st

10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers

A turd by any other name is still a turd, but there’s no harm in counting the ways. • They...

Oct 30th

Totally Awesome: Eye-Fi Card Reader

Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? The Eye-Fi Card is an ingenious little device for...

Oct 30th

Breaking Open Facebook With FOSS

NewsCloud writes “Since last December, Facebook has grown from 12 to 47 million users and...

Oct 30th

GPS for less: Magellan's RoadMate 1200

(Credit: CNET Networks)Magellan is using SEMA 2007 to launch the latest portable navigation system...

Oct 30th

Obama promises Net Neutrality law

Barack Obama has promised that he will deliver a law mandating Net Neutrality if he’s...

Oct 30th

Recently Listened: Loreena McKennitt – Marco...

Oct 30th

Recently Listened: Agatsuma – Rainbow Wind

Oct 30th

Brine

Brine A solution of water and salt that is used for pickling, preserving, and marinating foods....

Oct 30th

Recently Listened: Agatsuma – Souran Bushi

Oct 30th

Cookie tracking: How Facebook could be...

Cookie tracking: How Facebook could be worth $100 billion?  — When Facebook launches its...

Oct 30th

Need more storage? Try a chicken foot

(Credit: Crave Asia) Could anything be more bizarre to the Western world than watching an Asian...

Oct 30th

SanDisk heightens camera speed

(Credit: Crave Asia) How fast your camera shoots is due in part to the memory card it uses. Even...

Oct 30th

Recently Listened: Loreena McKennitt – Night...

Oct 30th

Google Caught in Comcast Traffic...

marcan writes “Comcast users are reporting ‘connection reset’ errors while loading...

Oct 30th

Gmail Speeds Up, Improves Contacts...

Dang, Gmail really is stepping it up these days. First IMAP support, and now a new version’s...

Oct 30th

Brad is wondering wtf is the deal with...

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)

Oct 30th

Ford tries simply offering what people...

Filed under: Car Buying, Plants/Manufacturing, Ford At the prodding of Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Co....

Oct 30th

POTUS 2008: Are you ready for some...

A new study shows what many Americans already know painfully well: traditional media’s...

Oct 30th

Anti-ripoff megapost from The...

The Consumerist has posted a giant round-up of their advocacy articles called “The Ultimate...

Oct 30th

AT&T's guilt-by-association...

Ed Felten Andrew Appel has some fascinating analysis of the “guilt by association”...

Oct 30th

No clown, Hulu looks great

Don’t look now but the so-called clown company may get the last laugh. Sure, Hulu.com is...

Oct 29th

Recently Listened: Blind Melon – Dear Ol' Dad

Oct 29th

WikiPediaVision: Watch Realtime...

By Brady Forrest With WikiPediaVision you can watch realtime English Wikipedia edits on a...

Oct 29th

Recently Listened: Kenny Loggins with Jim...

Oct 29th

Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs?

PJ1216 writes to mention that vinyl seems poised to make a comeback in the music industry. Some are...

Oct 29th

Bush fundraiser linked to crashed drug...

Remember the strange circumstances surrounding the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine...

Oct 29th

Remove Tourists from Photos with Tourist...

Online photo management application Snapmania’s Tourist Remover gets rid of unwanted gawkers...

Oct 29th

New book features US Military emblems,...

I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s...

Oct 29th

Satellite dish stickers beautify your...

Satellite Dish Stickers are just what it says on the tin: giant all-weather stickers for your...

Oct 29th

Recently Listened: Cowboy Junkies – Good...

Oct 29th

iPhone jailbreak for the masses released

Third-party applications for the iPhone won’t be released until early next year, but...

Oct 29th

Call for a Presidential Debate on...

Writer Matthew Chapman recently wrote a piece for the Washington Post calling for a science-only...

Oct 29th

Driver threatens slow police officer

Teresa Walker, 44, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was annoyed that a police officer who was writing her a...

Oct 29th

Trampe: Norwegian Bicycle Escalator

Trondheim, the third-largest city in Norway, has a very high percentage of bike riders compared to...

Oct 29th

Recover a Borked Flash Drive with Photo...

Blogger Kent Brewster used previously mentioned file recovery utility PhotoRec to rescue an...

Oct 29th

YouTube For High-School Jocks

theodp writes “Used to be college scouts had to put in lots of miles to find a hick from...

Oct 28th

Rochester Judge Holds RIAA Evidence...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Judge David G. Larimer, presiding in Rochester, New York, has...

Oct 28th

Failed futuristic predictions

Here’s a fine collection of 87 bad futuristic predictions from years gone by — many of...

Oct 28th

HOWTO make sugar skulls

Shawn from These Foolish Things posted a quick tutorial on making sugar skulls for Día de los...

Oct 28th

Astronauts Open ISS Station Room

mikesd81 notes an ABC News report that astronauts aboard the ISS have opened the new station room....

Oct 27th

Senators Call For Hearing On Carrier...

HangingChad writes “Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate...

Oct 27th

Mukasey Supports Warrantless Wiretapping

Laurie Kellman of The Associated Press reports: “President Bush’s choice for attorney...

Oct 27th

The sub-$200 HD DVD player arrives:...

Toshiba’s HD-A2 price is getting slashed both online and in brick and mortar stories, marking...

Oct 27th

Patent Reformers O'Reilly, Bezos Mum...

theodp writes “Brought together 7 years ago by a threatened boycott over Amazon’s...

Oct 27th

US Democrats Accidentally Publish...

iluvcapra writes “The US House Judiciary Committee recently emailed all of its potential...

Oct 27th

New UN environmental report paints a...

The UN’s Global Environment Outlook: environment for development report has just been...

Oct 27th

Nanotube Body Armor Coming Soon

s31523 writes “Military and law enforcement agencies are constantly seeking better protection...

Oct 27th

Nissan Adds Robot Helper To Its Concept...

narramissic writes “Nissan has mounted a robot passenger in the dashboard of its Pivo2 concept...

Oct 27th

Technology as Tattletale

The New York Times is carrying an article noting the increasing presence of location-sensing...

Oct 27th

FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing

theodp writes “The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s No. 2 official apologized...

Oct 27th

Using Old Medications to Defeat...

TastesLikeCoughSyrup writes “Antibiotic resistant tuberculosis is spreading like wildfire in...

Oct 27th

Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video...

penguin_dance writes “A Pennsylvania mom is fighting back, suing Universal Music Publishing...

Oct 27th

NASA Ikhana Assists SoCal Firefighters

ackthpt writes “Ikhana (a NASA drone) is primarily designed for suborbital earth sciences...

Oct 27th

How-To On Ajax Code To Show Movies and...

An anonymous reader writes “Sites like Flikr and YouTube show just the tip of the full...

Oct 26th

Taser death at Vancouver Airport

Akezys says: “Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent...

Oct 26th

Protesting prostitutes sew mouths shut

Bolivian prostitutes on a hunger strike have sewn their mouths shut as part of a protest against the...

Oct 26th

Recently Listened: Bob Dylan – Desolation Row

Oct 26th

Fighting the wildfires with a NASA UAV...

Todd Lappin of Telstar Logistics writes, “It’s the ultimate fire-fighting mashup: This...

Oct 26th

Recently Listened: Aerosmith – My Girl

Oct 26th

Recently Listened: The Who – Tommy Can You...

Oct 26th

Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail...

Gmail’s IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of...

Oct 26th

Make Your iPod Slip-free with Skateboard...

After losing his iPod Touch when it slipped out of his pocket in a cab, skater Sean Bonner decided...

Oct 26th

Twitter: Undefined? WTF? I'm _undefined_?

Oct 26th

Twitter: undefined

Oct 26th

Print Your Own Halloween Mask [Friday...

Forget a store-bought mask for Halloween: Put that photo printer to good use and make a custom mask...

Oct 26th

Mozilla Tests Integrated Desktop Browser

HelloDotJPEG writes “Mozilla Labs, the organisation’s experimental arm, has launched...

Oct 26th

AMPCO 7920: The $900 Sledge Hammer

The AMPCO 7920 sledge hammer costs $900—for a reason. It’s made of completely non-sparking,...

Oct 26th

Video Professor sues critics, gets...

John Scherer, the “Video Professor” of infomercial fame, really wants to make his...

Oct 26th

Faces in Places: Humanizing Everything

Our brains are programmed to recognize human faces, which is why we see faces in clouds, but not...

Oct 26th

Citrus Alarm Clock - free desktop alarm...

Citrus Alarm Clock. Desktop alarm clock program. Simple, gorgeous, effective. Multiple alarms for...

Oct 26th

More San Diego Fire Data Sets

By Brady Forrest GeoCommons, the free geodata service from FortiusOne (Radar post), has...

Oct 26th

Pumkin skull templates

For your elaborate carving pleasure, these pumpkin skull templates to print and...

Oct 26th

FBI forces false confession out of man

Blackandy says: Long story short: Man is staying in hotel in NYC during the 9/11/2001 attacks. ...

Oct 26th

Old racist cap gun on eBay

For sale on eBay: an old cap gun that says “The Chinese Must Go” on the handle. Bidding...

Oct 26th

Techie Pay Approaches All-time High

Stony Stevenson sent in this ITNews story which opens, “Techies were paid nearly record-high...

Oct 25th

Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange...

Via Opposable Thumbs, a post on the Consumerist site notes that some enterprising gamers who bought...

Oct 25th

Twitter: Macromedia/Adobe got Flash player...

Oct 25th

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets we looked at this gorgeous Mitsubishi Fuso dump truck concept, the...

Oct 25th

Facebook Kremlinology

By Nat Torkington As word comes out about other investors in Facebook, I find myself still...

Oct 25th

Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a...

swordgeek writes “Comet 17P/Holmes, a relatively obscure and (until a few days ago) dim...

Oct 25th

4 Decluttering Techniques

Organized Home has a few great ways to get rid of clutter in your home or at work. For most of us,...

Oct 25th

Papercraft skull with moving jaw

Back in August, the Skull-a-Day blog (a new skull, every day!) ran this papercraft skull with...

Oct 25th

String Theory in Two Minutes

An anonymous reader writes “Most of us have heard of string theory, many of us know what it is...

Oct 25th

Story written using only Cat in the Hat...

J Robert Lennon has composed a passable short story using only words found in Dr Seuss’s The...

Oct 25th

Brain Regions Responsible for Optimism...

TaeKwonDood writes “The brain region responsible for believing you can seduce Giselle Bundchen...

Oct 25th

Videos of Ramana's levitations

Here is a video of Wouter Bijdendijk, a Dutch magician who performs as Ramana, levitating outside...

Oct 24th

Recently Listened: Peter, Paul & Mary – Light...

Oct 24th

States Set to Sue the U.S. Over...

dnormant writes to tell us The New York Times is reporting that more than a dozen states are gearing...

Oct 24th

Obama will support filibuster of any...

The so-called “Austin Mayor” says: Sen. Barack Obama will back a filibuster of any...

Oct 24th

Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake...

Nrbelex writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has beat out Google and...

Oct 24th

Microsoft antes up $240 million for a...

Microsoft and Facebook have announced an expansion of the strategic alliance between the two...

Oct 24th

Family: Organize Your Family Life with...

Web-based application Famundu is a one-stop calendar, to-do list, contact management solution and...

Oct 24th

Juvenille bigfoot or mangy bear?

Johnny of the Half Sasquatch blog sent me a link to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization...

Oct 24th

Gmail: A Better Way to Set Up Gmail IMAP

If you’ve set up Gmail IMAP using Google’s instructions, you may have noticed a couple...

Oct 24th

Teachers' lack of fair use education...

Teachers! You’ve got to fight (duh duh) for your right (duh duh) to… use copyrighted...

Oct 24th

MySQL to Get Injection of Google Code

inkslinger77 writes to mention that MySQL has published their software roadmap out through 2009 and...

Oct 24th

Gmail delivers a knockout punch: IMAP...

Google has sweetened its e-mail offerings by rolling out IMAP capabilities in all Gmail accounts,...

Oct 24th

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Google...

Living in the shadow of Gmail, Reader and Calendar’s got to be tough, but that’s what...

Oct 24th

IMF head: Dollar could collapse

Uh-oh. The outgoing head of the IMF thinks that the dollar might collapse: “There are risks...

Oct 24th

Disney's coprophilic cookbook

Miss Fipi Lele points out this amusing little cook-book: “Cooking with Pooh.” Possibly...

Oct 24th

Suunto Core: Wristwatch Bristling with...

The new Sunnto Core is more than a watch, according to its manufacturer—it’s an outdoor...

Oct 24th

Plug-In Prius Hybrid Looking Likely

Popular Mechanics’ Ben Stewart took a few laps in a prototype Toyota Prius that can be plugged...

Oct 24th

Sony Cybershot DSC-T2 Has 4GB of Memory...

The Cyber-shot DSC-T2 is the latest in Sony’s line of point-and-shoots, made most notable by...

Oct 24th

Mirror Spy Clock

This “Spy Clock” by Pieter Woudt adds a simple clock mechanism to a polished convex...

Oct 24th

US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma

An anonymous reader writes “The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that US-made censorware...

Oct 24th

Ice cream ramen

Kikuya, a ramen shop near Tokyo’s Kitasenjyu Station, carries a startling variety of...

Oct 24th

Comcast shooting itself in the foot with...

Comcast is trying to go on the offensive against the discovery that the ISP is blocking traffic from...

Oct 24th

Floating, Texas-sized garbage patch...

Currents and weather are pushing plastic debris into a giant garbage patch in the northern Pacific...

Oct 24th

Clever non-lethal mousetraps

Designer Roger Arquer makes non-lethal mousetraps from household items. Using everyday household...

Oct 23rd

CNN's Glenn Beck: "people who hate...

CNN’s Rush Limbaugh knockoff, Glenn Beck, made a particularly intelligent comment on his radio...

Oct 23rd

Food: Monitor Food Expiration Dates with...

Track your perishable food’s expiration dates and receive reminders days before the food...

Oct 23rd

Chinese luxury market -- all smoke and...

AccessAsia’s review of Dana Thomas’s Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster has some really...

Oct 23rd

CalTech Creates Electronic Nose

eldavojohn writes “Researchers have created an electronic nose that can detect odor and...

Oct 23rd

Recently Listened: Prince – Flutestramental

Oct 22nd

Recently Listened: Seether – 69 Tea

Oct 22nd

Recently Listened: Don Henley – A Month of...

Oct 22nd

Reverse Your Fans

Clockwise. Now’s the time to reverse your ceiling fan’s rotation for winter. Flip the...

Oct 22nd

Fax: Fax from Your Cameraphone with...

Just noticed a useful feature in previously mentioned document scanner service, Qipit: the ability...

Oct 22nd

"I Was a Hacker for the MPAA"

Wired has up an article with a man named Robert Anderson, who was recruited by the MPAA in 2005 to...

Oct 22nd

Halloween mugshot mask: U.S. Senator...

Make your very own U.S. Senator Larry Craig Paper Bag Mask this Halloween, and scare the...

Oct 22nd

Storage: Time Limits for Frozen Food

Wondering whether or not that pork chop circa 1985 might still be delish? According to DIY...

Oct 21st

21 "mega-cities" in danger from rising...

The nonprofit Worldwatch Institute has released a list of 21 “mega-cities” of 8 million...

Oct 21st

IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To...

fgaliegue writes “Ars Technica has a follow-up on the ifpi.com domain takeover by The Pirate...

Oct 21st

Dumbledore is gay -- Rowling

JK Rowling has taken Albus Dumbledore — the wizard father-figure of her Harry Potter books...

Oct 21st

Provider of Free Public Domain Music...

Mark Rogers writes “The International Music Score Library Project has provided access to...

Oct 21st

Google News Launches Facebook...

NewsCloud writes “Eight days after Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Zeitgeist conference attendees...

Oct 20th

How the AP busted Comcast for blocking...

In the wake of yesterday’s revelation that AP had discovered secret, anti-BitTorrent software...

Oct 20th

Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA...

Hugh Pickens writes “The University of Saskatchewan’s has the first place climb in the...

Oct 20th

Inspiration: Break Out of Your Routine...

Routines are not necessarily bad things, but after doing the same thing day in and day out can dull...

Oct 20th

Evidence of Steganography in Real...

ancientribe writes “Researchers at Purdue University have found proof that criminals are...

Oct 20th

New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of...

Hugh Pickens writes “The New York Times is running an article on Dash Express, a new...

Oct 20th

High-Tech Vest Lets Gamers Take a Hit

mytrip passed on a link to a PC World post about a unique accessory for FPS gamers. Called the...

Oct 20th

Recently Listened: Page & Plant – Burning Up

Oct 19th

Recently Listened: The Cars – Running to You

Oct 19th

Recently Listened: Heart – (Love Me Like...

Oct 19th

Recently Listened: Led Zeppelin – You Shook...

Oct 19th

Recently Listened: Enya – Na Laetha Gael...

Oct 19th

Twitter: Hmm... We've got an HP printer in...

Oct 19th

Friday Fun: Make a Facebook Friends...

The Digital Inspiration weblog found a hidden Facebook feature—the ability to view your friends as a...

Oct 19th

Featured Windows Download: Customize the...

Windows only: Get a customized Open and Save dialog box (with details, icons, or lists) with...

Oct 19th

Do Someday Tasks Some Day

We all have those tasks and projects that we plan on doing ’someday’. The problem is that someday...

Oct 19th

Office Pranks: Change the Default...

Flummox your co-workers with an “Insert Coin” message on the office printer using the HP...

Oct 19th

Giant Atmospheric Waves Filmed Over Iowa

NJChopperMan writes “For all those of you that thought waves only existed in the ocean, Photos...

Oct 19th

HOWTO Find out why your flight is REALLY...

Here’s a great tip from Consumerist: airlines’ cargo-tracking websites often give the...

Oct 19th

First Details of Windows 7 Emerge

Some small but significant details of the next major release of Windows have emerged via a...

Oct 19th

Recently Listened: Enya – Angeles

Oct 18th

Recently Listened: The Alan Parsons Project –...

Oct 18th

Computer-Controlled Cannon Kills 9,...

Image: MilitaryPhotos.net While it’s more general malfunction than aggressive A.I. out for...

Oct 18th

Recently Listened: Emerson, Lake & Palmer –...

Oct 18th

Recently Listened: Alison Krauss – I Will

Oct 18th

Web2Summit: Backstage with Mark...

By Tim O’Reilly A lot of people will be reporting on what Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has to...

Oct 17th

Zune: Use Your Zune as an External Hard...

We’ve already told you how to use your Zune as a portable hard drive so your Zune can double...

Oct 17th

Recently Listened: Lenny Kravitz – Black...

Oct 17th

Twitter: iPhone killer? Not likely, but maybe...

Oct 17th

Twitter: iPhone killer? Not likely, but maybe...

Oct 17th

Release: Google Docs Mobile Now...

Google launches Docs Mobile, a slimmed-down view of Google Docs and Spreadsheets for your handheld. ...

Oct 17th

Don’t Panic! Stop Worrying and Enjoy...

With Halloween now two weeks away, it’s time to start thinking about Halloween safety. OK, that’s...

Oct 17th

Asus officially launches $299 "Eee"...

Taiwan computing giant Asus has officially launched its compact and low-cost “Eee”...

Oct 17th

Law-firm: copyright prohibits "view...

Greg sez, This law firm includes a term in its website’s “User Agreement”...

Oct 17th

Telecom companies refuse to reveal NSA...

Three telecommunication companies have responded to Congressional inquiry by refusing to disclose...

Oct 17th

Fuser - manage your email and social...

Fuser dot com. A new service which lets you read and manage your email and social networking...

Oct 17th

Woman jailed for 50 days for possessing...

38-year-old Cynthia Hunter of Florida was jailed for 50 days when police found a vial containing a...

Oct 17th

The case of the missing CableCARD-ready...

As of July 1, the FCC’s integration ban expired, and cable companies needed to begin offering...

Oct 17th

Recently Listened: Buddy Guy – Mary Had a...

Oct 16th

Facebook to Strengthen Child Warnings

The social networking Web site said that it will strengthen warnings about child safety as part of a...

Oct 16th

Facebook to Strengthen Child Warnings

The social networking Web site said that it will strengthen warnings about child safety as part of a...

Oct 16th

Twitter: Bed-mounted gun rack? Sign me up!...

Oct 16th

Anti-DRM cards to stick in your Netflix...

Joshua sez, “The Defective by Design campaign is sending a message (in the form business-card...

Oct 16th

HOWTO wash your hands and beat the flu

Making Light’s James D Macdonald has some sterling advice for avoiding the flu this season...

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: The Beatles – Ob-La-Di,...

Oct 16th

Facebook to Strengthen Child Warnings

The social networking Web site said that it will strengthen warnings about child safety as part of a...

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: Suede – My Insatiable One

Oct 16th

US House Votes To Renew Internet Tax Ban

Talen317 writes with news that the US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to renew the...

Oct 16th

Blood helps us think

New scientific research suggests that blood not only delivers oxygen and other supplies to our brain...

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: Dead Can Dance – Devorzhum

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: The Allman Brothers Band –...

Oct 16th

Facebook's got Google running scared...

Facebook’s got Google running scared  — Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would dearly...

Oct 16th

Featured Windows Download: Upload to FTP...

Windows only: Quickly upload any file directly from Windows Explorer via your right-click menu with...

Oct 16th

Cartoonist's car doused with used engine...

Jason Chatfield says: “Australian editorial cartoonist Jason Chatfield awoke this morning to...

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: Dwight Yoakam – PLease,...

Oct 16th

Personal Finance: Why Renting Might Be...

Conventional wisdom is that buying a home is a sound investment, and renting is throwing money out...

Oct 16th

Twitter: The thrill is gone, baby. It's gone...

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: Pink Floyd – Flaming

Oct 16th

Recently Listened: Pink Floyd – Coming Back...

Oct 16th

Netvibes: Netvibes Widgets Now...

Customizable homepage Netvibes has started making its widgets available on a multitude of both...

Oct 16th

iTunes DRM-Free Tracks Now Same Price As...

jawtheshark writes “Apple has made the decision to revise the pricing of Plus songs on the...

Oct 16th

Twitter: The thrill is gone away baby. It is...

Oct 16th

Critic of Software Patents Wins Nobel...

doom writes “You’ve probably already heard that the Nobel Prize for Economics was given...

Oct 16th

Featured Windows Download: Export...

Windows only: Want to format your hard drive and reinstall Windows but you’re not sure you...

Oct 16th

LED Magnetic Rescue Stick - the ultimate...

LED Magnetic Telescopic Rescue Stick. You know how much of a hassle it is to find and pick up that...

Oct 16th

Gov. Schwarzenegger says "hasta la...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed AB 779, a legislative proposal that would have...

Oct 16th

EDGE Can Out-Perform 3G; Here's Why

goombah99 writes “Blackfriars’s communications has an interesting discourse on why the...

Oct 16th

The wonders of roasted brussel sprouts

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Roasting When my sister came to visit last week, the first thing...

Oct 16th

Jammie Appeals, Citing...

Peerless writes “Capitol v. Thomas defendant Jammie Thomas has officially appealed the...

Oct 16th

George Saunders' "Ask the Optimist" as...

Internet funnyguy Jesse Thorn produced an audio-theater adaptation of George Saunders’ short...

Oct 16th

Apple dropping DRM-free tunes to 99...

Filed under: Audio, Windows, Macintosh, Apple This really can’t be a case of “we told...

Oct 16th

Why ISS Computers Failed

Geoffrey.landis writes “It was only a small news item four months ago: all three of the...

Oct 16th

Finding the House

By Peter Brantley Wireless Watch from Japan, Inc. has a story, “The Navigation Bubble,”...

Oct 16th

Led Zeppelin Agrees To Digital...

cphilo points out a NYTimes article on Led Zeppelin’s decision to sell its music online. The...

Oct 16th

Virtual Earth: Birds-Eye in 3D

By Brady Forrest Virtual Earth is going to be releasing an update soon and they’ve...

Oct 15th

XM brings satellite radio Direct 2 you

The Audiovox XM Direct 2(Credit: XM Satellite Radio) With a few honorable exceptions, car stereo...

Oct 15th

Peanut Butter + Banana = Delicious...

There’s no doubt about it, peanut butter and bananas just go well together — and if you...

Oct 15th

Telephony: GOOG-411 Graduates Labs,...

Previously mentioned GOOG-411, Google’s free telephone directory assistance tool, has...

Oct 15th

Jobo Photo Drives Hit 200GB

Jobo, a German company specializing in high-end photo accessories, has released a new line of...

Oct 15th

Google's GPhone strategy could keep...

According to USA Today, Google’s widely anticipated - and top secret - GPhone mobile phone...

Oct 15th

Screenshot Tour: Google Releases Gmail...

Java-enabled handsets: Google’s released an update to its excellent Gmail Mobile...

Oct 15th

Apple: Upgrade Your iPod Video to an...

While Microsoft decided that old Zunes are getting all the feature updates of the new and improved...

Oct 15th

Which laws don't we enforce and why?

Tim Wu, a smart and funny law prof, has a new series up on Slate that he calls his magnum opus...

Oct 15th

"Because you are dangerous, you must not...

A couple of good signs from the always enjoyable Engrish.com. Link ...

Oct 15th

Featured Windows Download: Share...

Windows only: Copy and paste text and files between computers on your Local Area Network (LAN) with...

Oct 15th

Glowstick Cutlery

Oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk Pass the Oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk oonsk Pass...

Oct 15th

Recently Listened: Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrar,...

Oct 15th

Blog Action Day: Easy Ways to Live...

As a proud participant in today’s mass blogging event, Blog Action Day, we’re devoting...

Oct 15th

Brad is watching for bumps in the road.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)

Oct 15th

Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and...

By Tim O’Reilly There’s always a risk of self-fulfilling prophecies in social...

Oct 15th

Google Translate Suggest - awesome...

I don’t know how long this has been going on, but Google looks to have just introduced a new...

Oct 15th

My nephew, Joshua

(via Photos from BradFarris)

Oct 15th

Congress: don't cripple the suit against...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl sez, “Today the San Jose Mercury News...

Oct 14th

Information: Explore Medical Terms...

If you’re researching medical terms, you might want to check out Curehunter, a medical...

Oct 14th

Microwind Generator for Low Power...

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that “Shawn Frayne, has developed Windbelt, efficient,...

Oct 14th

Mind Hacks: Dissolve Mental Blocks By...

Sometimes, the solution to becoming more creative can’t be arrived at by traditional thinking....

Oct 14th

Google Phone Rumors Solidifying

MrCrassic alerts us to an Ars Technica roundup of various reports about Google’s rumored...

Oct 14th

Lessig's anti-corruption lecture --...

I’ve been avidly following Larry Lessig’s switch from fighting for sane copyright to...

Oct 14th

Shopping: Buy Books on a Thursday to...

If you’re looking for a way to make your book money go a little further, try buying books on a...

Oct 14th

Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice...

SoyChemist writes “Ciguatoxin causes bizarre neurological symptoms including temperature...

Oct 14th

The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us

Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in the Iraq war. The longer we...

Oct 14th

Spies, Lies and FISA

We have watched Republican lawmakers help President Bush shred the Constitution in the name of...

Oct 14th

Profile of the Russian Business Network

The Washington Post has an article detailing what is known of the workings of the Russian Business...

Oct 14th

Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad

Whip-hero writes in with an Examiner.com story about Google’s rejection of an ad critical of...

Oct 13th

Communication: Check In With Clients To...

You can avoid many possible miscommunication issues with the people you work with simply by checking...

Oct 13th

Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen...

Kaseijin writes “Florida Governor Charlie Crist is getting his wish. The New York Times...

Oct 13th

Health: Prepare Yourself For A Healthy...

Have you given much thought to what your old age will look like? The Happiness Project suggests that...

Oct 13th

Blade Runner, The Final Cut

Bowman9991 writes “A new promotional website is up and trailers for Blade Runner: The Final...

Oct 13th

Organizing: Use Index Cards to Track...

Keep a running track of your bills by using index cards. Office productivity blog Web Worker Daily...

Oct 13th

Money: How Big Should Your Emergency...

The standard advice for the size of an emergency fund is enough money for three to six months of...

Oct 13th

Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit

An anonymous reader writes “Google claims that people are devouring capacity with photos and...

Oct 13th

Shipping containers as housing

A discussion thread on using shipping containers as housing on Making Light turned up a fantastic...

Oct 13th

New Car Sensor System Simulates...

narramissic writes “Remember when you had to turn around in your seat to parallel park? Ok,...

Oct 13th

iRobot ConnectR - the virtual visiting...

The iRobot ConnectR is a spooky piece of kit. They’re calling it a ‘virtual visiting robot’, but...

Oct 13th

Canadian ISP Co-Op Shows Upside of Line...

Golden Gael writes “The FCC got rid of mandatory line sharing in the US a few years ago, but...

Oct 13th

Vatican publish Knights Templar...

The Vatican has published a slew of centuries-old documents about the Knights Templar, a Christian...

Oct 13th

Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC

ThinSkin writes “Meet the fit-PC, a tiny 4.7 x 4.5 x 1.5-inch PC that only draws 5-watts,...

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: PJ Harvey – To Bring You...

Oct 12th

Twitter: @cortland: Yup. I get tracking...

Oct 12th

Featured Windows Download: Manage...

Windows only: Connect to and manage multiple remote desktop connections—supporting RDP, VNC, SSH2,...

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: The Allman Brothers Band –...

Oct 12th

HOWTO make crystal clear ice

Over at Instructables, Isr_Raviv posted a neat simple HOWTO, with video, on making crystal clear...

Oct 12th

Twitter: @cortland: good question - I haven't...

Oct 12th

Air Force to Get "Cyber...

mlbtaz writes to mention that techs working on Air Force networks will soon be getting “cyber...

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: Janis Joplin – Summertime

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: The Offspring – Gotta Get...

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to...

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: The Jimi Hendrix...

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: Deep Purple –...

Oct 12th

Brad is mourning the passing of panadero...

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)

Oct 12th

Recently Listened: Spirit – I Got a Line on...

Oct 12th

Twitter: No panadero bread? No breakfast? OK,...

Oct 12th

Twitter: There are few things more annoying...

Oct 12th

Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the...

Oct 12th

Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar (4/5)

Buffalo Wild Wings has more televisions than any other bar around. If there’s a televised...

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Blind Faith – Had to Cry...

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Brian Eno – (Thinking...

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Eagles – Victim of Love

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Led Zeppelin –...

Oct 11th

Featured Windows Download: Keep Your...

Windows only: Keep your mouse cursor from obscuring your text as you type with lightweight, freeware...

Oct 11th

Garuda Airlines chief charged with...

The Times Online reports that the former head of Indonesia’s national airline, Indra Setiawan, and...

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Robin Trower – Too Rolling...

Oct 11th

Radiohead still needs major label to let...

Radiohead still plans to release their new album via one of the Big Four labels, but Madonna is...

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Van Morrison – Crazy Love

Oct 11th

Recently Listened: Dead Can Dance – Host of...

Oct 11th

Lazyweb: I want an Upcoming Call Queue...

By Tim O’Reilly Partly as a result of Jaiku smart address book, I’ve been thinking...

Oct 11th

Plasma TVs may be banned (ABC News)

Plasma TVs may be banned  — Most plasma television sets are in danger of being banned from sale...

Oct 11th

Gastrovac sucks your food -- Boing Boing...

Our Joel on Boing Boing Gadgets found this PopSci piece on serious “pro” kitchen gadgets...

Oct 10th

Wal-Mart's total area larger than...

The total area of the worlds’ Wal-Marts is larger than the total area of Manhattan; Good...

Oct 10th

Personal Finance: Track Your Purchases...

Track your spending via SMS, email, IM, or voice (via Jott) with web application Xpenser. After...

Oct 10th

Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox

Kelson writes “Mozilla has announced a new initiative to bring Mozilla to the mobile web,...

Oct 10th

Mail: Send Snail Mail via Email with...

Address and send traditional snail mail via email on the cheap with web site Postful. In contrast...

Oct 10th

Featured Windows Download: Make Any...

Windows only: Carry any application with you on your thumb drive with freeware virtual PC software...

Oct 10th

Random neuronal firings cause mistakes

Scientists report that spontaneous brain activity, bursts of electrical noise in our neurons, may be...

Oct 10th