A few years ago, I wrote a book called Manspace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory, which was about the spaces men … Read More >>
New Instruments That Matter: Four Examples, Live in SF, Really Do Move Music Forward
Richard Lainhart mans the Haken Continuum at an early installment of our Handmade Music series, back in 2007. Meanwhile, in … Read More >>
Aged to Perfection: Years-Old Gadgets Worn Smooth
via Gadget Lab
What happens if you actually keep and use your gadgets for more than a year, something that seems increasingly gauche in these … Read More >>
Editorial: A less tactile future, and how to avoid it
via Engadget
For the past few weeks, I’ve been doing most of my typing on a Matias Tactile Pro 3 — a mechanical keyboard that’s much like … Read More >>
Hidden cognitive costs of doing stuff
via Boing Boing
Sebastian Marshall’s Lifehacker post on the cognitive cost of “doing things” is a really interesting look at all the hidden … Read More >>
EFF: vote for easy full-disk encryption in Ubuntu!
via Boing Boing
The Ubuntu Live CD is the excellent, free installer disk for the Ubuntu GNU/Linux OS; it has a variety of disk tools as well as … Read More >>
Holy Freaking Hell, This Saw Cuts Through Mountains [Monster Machines]
Airship! This Bulbous Craft Could Launch In 2013
via CrunchGear
Good morrow! Welcome to the world of the future! We present to the public a Miraculous and Orotund Airship for the conveyance … Read More >>
Mozilla resists US gov’t request to nuke "MafiaaFire" add-on
via Ars Technica
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has asked Mozilla to remove a simple … Read More >>
History and future of bin Ladenist extremism
via Boing Boing
Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an expert on middle eastern … Read More >>