Dr Ben Goldacre's UK bestseller Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks is finally in print in the USA, and Americans are lucky to have it. Goldacre writes a… Read the rest of the article: Bad Science comes to the USA: Ben Goldacre's tremendous woo-fighting book in print in the States

Here's a clever way from There I Fixed It to catch brick- and plaster-dust when drilling holes to hang pictures or shelves. Wish I'd thought of this last week when… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO catch drilling-dust with a folded Post-It

Building a PC? Why not throw in one of these 80 port USB charger-boards, so you can charge everygoddamnedthing you own? No data throughput, and it wants its own power… Read the rest of the article: 80-port USB charger board

Andy sez, Rick Ross, A long time fan who had made items in homage to Blade Runner before, has been working on a chess set and table in the style… Read the rest of the article: Fan-made Blade Runner chess-set

This 1954 HOWTO from Mechanix Illustrated invites the reader to take apart the family TV set to make a remote-controlled mute button (called a "SHADDAP") (!). Remember, Zenith's first TV… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make a proto-mute-button for your 1954 TV: the SHADDAP!

AE is a new Canadian science fiction magazine, named for AE Van Vogt. They're launching their issue one later this month: In the meantime, you can read our exclusive interview… Read the rest of the article: New Canadian science fiction magazine

www.whatthefuckismytransmediastrategy.com is a project from Dan Hon and friends to generate random "transmedia" strategies for your business. Here are some I got: Leveraging the power of event driven appointment to… Read the rest of the article: Whatthefuckismytransmediastrategy.com: random transmedia strategies for everyone!

Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of right wing attack ads have been aired in this US mid-term election season, but for the most part, no one knows who is… Read the rest of the article: Anonymous cowards buy the US mid-term elections

German inflatable fetishware store Blackstyle.de sells these groovycreepy inflatable xenomorph suits for people who are, I suppose, into a kind of rubbery anti-furry. BILDER | PIX (via JWZ) Obscure sex… Read the rest of the article: Inflatable xenomorph fetishwear

The open hardware hackers Adafruit Industries have created a jobs board for "designers, makers, programmers, artists and engineers who are looking for great places work at & projects to work… Read the rest of the article: Jobs for open hardware hackers

Dan Gillmor has the news that Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's visionary Chief Software Architect, has left the company. Ozzie, whose P2P startup Groove was bought by Microsoft, is admired and well-liked… Read the rest of the article: Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft

Urban explorers in Japan infiltrated the ruins of faded pop-singer Shouji Masakatsu's old home, and photographed the haunting abandoned gear and environs. An old enka singer's house haikyo (Thanks, Mike!)… Read the rest of the article: Photos from Japanese pop-singer's abandoned house

MIT's Tech Review reports on a paper in the Stanford Technology Law Review, in which law/economic scholar Eric M. Fraser explains the anticompetitive aspects of the Google Book Search settlement… Read the rest of the article: Google Book Search will never have an effective competitor

Steve Silberman sez, "'This body will be a corpse' – a dramatic reminder of impermanence from Ethan Nichtern's Interdependence Project:" "Wearing this tee is a reminder to stay in touch… Read the rest of the article: Buddhist tee: This Body Will Be a Corpse

Matt Staggs sez, "Jews, Muslims, Hindus and non-religious types who just like to read: you're out of luck at the Prentiss County Jail. You can have three books, but one… Read the rest of the article: Prentiss County, Mississippi Jail requires all inmates to have a Bible, regardless of faith

The MakerLegoBot is a Lego Mindstorms-based 3D printer that turns software descriptions of Lego builds into completed Lego pieces, automatically, picking and snapping down pieces as it goes. Next step… Read the rest of the article: 3D Lego printer

My latest Publishers Weekly column, "With a Little Twitter Help," describes the invaluable aid I've gotten in my ongoing self-publishing project, With a Little Help, by asking my readers through… Read the rest of the article: Column: a DIY book, by way of some help from Twitter pals

Kathe Koja's Under the Poppy is a novel unlike any other — even unlike any other of Kathe Koja's books, which are a marvellous genre unto themselves. In some ways,… Read the rest of the article: Koja's UNDER THE POPPY: dark, epic and erotic novel of war and intrigue

The Malling-Hansen writing ball is a proto-typewriter that, sadly for contemporary aesthetics, lost the battle for typewriting supremacy. This page from the Malling-Hansen Society claims it was superior to the… Read the rest of the article: Beautiful failed typewriter design: the writing ball

Rogue archivist Rick Prelinger sez, "Simon Ramo (the 'R' in TRW Corp.) commissioned this film in 1959 to describe his concept of 'polymorphic computing,' which means distributing computer power over… Read the rest of the article: Early distributed computing video, 1959, prefigures the net