If you're in the SF area and would be down to party like the undead, take a night hike for stargazing, or debate the fantastic ways the world might end, then you'll be over the moon to hear that this week marks the start of the annual Bay Area Scienc…
an abridgment of a 1938 exploitation film "Sex Madness" and a few words on the burlesque revival.
With ample space to prance around and puff their chests out, Obama and Romney got into it last night on Strong Island, where things got hot, quick. It was like Candy Crowley was emcee'ing a rap battle or something. We're talking Libya, gun violence,
Last night, if you were watching the Vice Presidential debate, which despite its contenders sitting in chairs, was infinitely more captivating than the standing debate between the two Presidential candidates last week in Colorado. If you weren't live…
TwiLight was in development from 1991 to 1997 for the Atari TOS (The Operating System operating system), which existed for the old (1985 to 1993) Atari ST home computer. Just this week, one of the screen-saver collection's creators, Dragan Espenschie…
A solar powered 3D printer, bacteria that transmits AM radio signals, and geese on the moon -- these are just a few glimpses of the future that were on display at this year's Ars Electronica, one of biggest festivals for art and technology in the wor…
In geosynchronous orbit, a ribbon of space 35,786 kilometers above mean sea level, a satellite can hang out for billions of years. A few clicks in either direction, and the rate of decay is visible. In geosynchronous orbit, however, with no atmospher…
Sonically, “Za Kaom Pa Stargo Stargo Drone Hamla” (My Gaze Is as Fatal as a Drone Attack) isn't anything to drone on about. But even with a stock melody and otherwise _mehhh_ dance moves, "Za Kaom" (My Gaze) is proving to be a legit banger. A real pa…
Perhaps chalk it up to lack of caffeine, but I've spent a cool 30 minutes here trying to think of a good metaphor or statistic that might point to how insanely complex weather on Earth is -- the near-infinitely vast number of variables and interactio…
In 2010, deep in the recession doldrums, eBay handled $62 billion worth of buying/selling transactions and $92 billion worth of financial transactions, while bringing in about $9 billion worth of revenue for itself. A rare big-name survivor of the fi…
The opening of Turkish novelist "Orhan Pamuk's":http://www.orhanpamuk.net/ Museum of Innocence earlier this year indirectly highlights one of the more quietly powerful riffs of museum development in the digital age. Named after and based on Pamuk's 2…
Take a minute and go on a quick tour of the massive online art collaboration "Web Canvas":http://webcanvas.com/. It's like a bar bathroom wall as its own planet, complete with its own coordinate system. It's all so much barf and scribble -- but the p…
"This is a .biz site, I remind you," Will Zweigart yelled last night over a pounding, over-modulated Kanye West track. "It's not .org! Tonight is about .biz!" Zweigart wasn't angry, but he seemed slightly -- _very_ slightly -- indignant. He was ta…
On top of the growing popularity of ebooks and the Orwellian end of the written word as we know it, Jonathan Franzen now has to deal with this. And he just lost self-proclaimed “Luddite” Thomas Pynchon "to the digital tide":http://motherboard.vice.co…
Following hurricane Katrina, an influx of dolphin calves in the Mississippi Sound has raised brows of curiosity and speculation. So, what could it be? Scientific American listed some possible reasons according to report from the University of Souther…
Wow, you guys. Great news. You no longer have to go to the beach this holiday weekend. That's right, you can save people the trouble of commenting on your horrible posture and translucent skin; instead, take that satchel of grillables and drag it int…
For obsessives of hardcore street photography and photojournalists alike, there's one man to thank for taking photography outside of the studio: Henri Cartier-Bresson, who would have turned 104 today. Cartier-Bresson was born in France in 1908 and pa…
NYC-based arts collective "YesYesNo":http://yesyesno.com/ is shooting for a rather odd distinction in the art world: the longest work of art in the world. The crew is going to go high-tech, with the aim to light 450 weather balloons with colored LEDs…
Youtuber greeenpro specializes in optical illusion videos. These are five of his greatest.
Jack the Dripper was my favorite artist as a kid, and why wouldn't he be? Could there be anything cooler to a youngster wearing neon Taz shirts than a guy who became a legend for making a huge mess? (I still like Pollock as a grown-up, but now I'd ha…
In "a study":http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_15-8-2012-12-15-31 that has nothing to do with the fact that a third _Kill Bill_ movie is being "made":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86mswvoUAY , British re…
For all the grief NBC has received for its coverage this Olympics, London 2012 is looking like it will be a roaring success for the old peacock. Ratings for this go-round are beating ratings from Beijing, which has led the network to predict it might…
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