Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Had to visit the DMV this week.
This    is    as    fun    as    it    sounds.
Long story short, I’ve been in Pennsylvania for too long driving with a Texas driver’s license, and the cop was nice enough not to cite me for it but I need to get one ASAP.  When I visited I remembered why I thought it was such a hassle last […]

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor
So now a guy with a chip in his head can play Pong. It took 20 years to go from Pong (1972) to the Web (1991), 25 years for the Web to be serious business. At that rate, I should be jacking in sometime in my early 50s. […]

Way back in 1996, the US Government passed the Communications Decency Act to censor “indecent” speech on the Internet. This came as a shock to an Internet that since its inception had little content regulation of any kind other than early anti-spam techniques. The Electronic Frontier Foundation began the Blue Ribbon Campaign while many websites, […]

Cal fans pull prank on USC basketball player using their IM clients, which leaves katster to ponder the strange combining of her interests.

I want one.
Wait for the video to load up. It’s worth every minute.

Reports of my death are, as always, exaggerated; every attempt on my life thus far has failed.
To flaunt my continued existence in the face of my implacable foes, I’ll do the equivalent of jumping up and down while shouting “HA HA! I’M STILL HERE!” that is also known as blogging in a public place. […]

Via the Houston Chronicle comes a story that seems to have been little remarked upon outside of Texas: a young girl by the name of Katie Wernecke has had radiation therapy for her leukemia repeatedly delayed due to the idiotic pseudoscientific paranoia of her parents. By latest report, she had an 80-90 percent chance […]

According to a new federal law, you will be required to tear down the house you are currently living in and rebuild with glass walls, the better to allow federal agents to examine your activities should you ever be under suspicion of a crime. Don’t worry, you’re not… yet. And you don’t expect […]

A few days ago, I mentioned a major breakthrough in the production of carbon nanotube sheets on something resembling an industrially-useful scale. I was going to do a larger article on it this weekend, until I found that WorldChanging went and did a better job than I would have anyway, no surprise.
Anyway, go read their […]

Very small in fact, even though it’s a very big breakthrough. I was hoping to see something more substantial posted here, but I figured I’d spread the news on this one:
In Friday’s edition of the journal Science, however, scientists from the University of Texas and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization report the creation […]