Adam Estes
The Bayonet Industry Is Not Very Happy with President Obama
President Obama was on top of his game at Monday night's presidential debate. In their last primetime meeting before election day, Obama walked circles around his challenger Mitt Romney on everything from the government's progress in the war on terror...
What's Your Favorite Porny 80s Video Game?
In the age of the Atari 2600, video games were a novel and spell-binding creation. Plug a machine into your TV, turn it on, fight pixelated demons and revel in the futuristic fun. Like anything involving fun, teenage boys and being alone in a room with...
Should Trolling Be Illegal?
Nobody likes Internet trolls. These faceless bullies get a kick out of lurking around forums or comment threads waiting for some unsuspecting user to say the wrong thing only so they can pounce on them and rain down insults. The topics been in the news...
Foxconn Thinks the iPhone 5 Is a Pain in the Ass
China's largest and eminently loathable electronics manufacturer Foxconn is taking the fall for the iPhone 5 shortage that's annoyed consumers and worried investors in recent weeks. What's the holdup? They don't have enough parts? They're training new...
Will the Pirate Bay Survive in the Cloud?
The Pirate Bay is entering a new era as it moves all of its data from in-house servers in Sweden into the cloud in a move designed, in part, to evade the copyright cops. It all happened very quietly on Tuesday, and except for the five or so minutes of...
The Navy's New Super Warship Looks Like a Tiny Fishing Boat on Radar
Remember _The Hunt for the Red October_, that terrific movie from the 1990s starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery running around on submarines? The Red October was this new Soviet super sub that was virtually undetectable by radar and rigged up with...
CERN Is Not Creating World-Destroying Black Holes, Court Rules
A nice, concerned and probably crazy German woman is out of luck after a higher administrative court in Muenster rejected her claim that the particle accelerator at CERN is quietly creating a black hole that will destroy all of mankind. "The plaintiff...
Spider Silk Makes Great Microchips That Dissolve in the Human Body
Spider silk is pretty amazing stuff. Pound for pound, it's as strong as steel and more durable than Kevlar. It can be stretched to incredible lengths, but it's no more cumbersome than cotton or nylon. Because it's so awesome, scientists have long been...
Fearless Felix Baumgartner's Helmet Cam Footage Will Make You Puke
One of the most curious aspects of Felix Baumgartner's incredible impressive leap from space is how little of it we saw. Once Baumgartner stepped off his perch, 24.2 miles above Earth's surface, all we saw from the ground was a little, bitty white dot...
The Original Social Media Is Still Much More Powerful Than Facebook
It's hard to walk into a shop or restaurant these days without getting hit in the face by a "Like Us on Facebook" or "Follow Us on Twitter" sign. Sometimes, they even like to put them out on the sidewalk so that the chalkboard reads something along the...
A Cyber 'Pearl Harbor' Is Coming, Says Leon Panetta
If you didn't already know it, the United States is in terrible trouble of being hit by a horrible, crippling cyberattack. _The New York Times_ calls it a "dire threat." Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls it the impending "cyber Pearl Harbor." We don...
Is Facebook the New Philip Morris?
As if you didn't know it already, there's now yet another psych study detailing the addictive qualities of Facebook. Researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business recently enlisted 205 Germans and monitored them for an entire week...