Jonah Lehrer's having a rough summer. A month ago, when the author and journalist was busted, bizarrely, for self-plagiarizing — that is, reusing passages of his own work in newly published articles at the _New Yorker's_ website - he said "it was a s…
Let's not forget everything Facebook has done for us. In leveraging our social curiosity and innate egomania, Mark Zuckerberg unleashed a social revolution, compelling us to share even the most mundane aspects of our lives. No longer anonymous trolls…
No foolin': The secret access code to the computer controls of the U.S. nuclear-tipped missile arsenal between 1968 and 1976: "00000000":http://harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080175.
The Goog is boasting that more than 90 million people have signed up for Google+. Those are pretty impressive numbers. I mean, if you had 90 million people at your disposal, you could do anything. You'd rule the Internet. Except there's one little pr…
Be careful MoMA and Showclix: you have made Kraftwerk fans angry. In the midst of today's massive ticket-selling fiasco for the band's eight "full-album shows":http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1257 at the museum, someone commented on "B…
The U.S. is no stranger to the collapse of complex systems. But two decades before the break-up of Space Shuttle Columbia, the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and Fukashima Daiichi, America witnessed the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, and saw ha…
We had a plan last week. We were going to "publish a story on CNN.com":http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-21/tech/motherboard.NYC.resistor_1_hackers-diy-robot?_s=PM:TECH with a video we made, about "the hackerspace NYC Resistor":http://motherboard.tv/20…
Chrysler, the barely big-3 automaker that saw its annual unit sales drop by roughly two-thirds between 1999 and 2009, needed friends. Having alienated two or three generations of the driving public, the company--now owned by Fiat, the American and Ca…
