This Flickr user has owned his 14" TV since he was 16; when the power-switch broke, he decided to wring a few more years out of it by attaching a… Read the rest of the article: TV with hacked-in "science lab" two-stage power-switch

Here's a remixed Amsterdam subway map with all the station names changed for humorous anagrams — it's in the tradition of the anagram remixed London Underground and Toronto Transit Commission… Read the rest of the article: Anagram map of the Amsterdam Metro

Diane Duane, author of the wildly successful Young Wizards fantasy novels, has decided to complete her "Feline Wizards" trilogy as a web-based, reader-supported serial. She'll publish the ten chapters or… Read the rest of the article: Diane Duane vows to finish trilogy as a reader-supported web-book

After seeing yesterday's post about Transport for London's nastygramming of the Tube map that substituted all the station names for anagrams, Robot Johnny produced an inspired version that remixes the… Read the rest of the article: Anagram map of Toronto subways

The "Stuff from the Park" blog collects vintage photos of Disneyland discovered at yard-sales and flea-markets, including some amazing rare shots of the Park's construction phase (also noteworthy are some… Read the rest of the article: Vintage Disneyland photos collected at yard-sales

More information has come to light about the identity of the writer for The Register who wrote a column in which Electronic Frontier Foundation was falsely accused of losing several… Read the rest of the article: More clues to identity of author of EFF-sliming article in The Reg

Neil sez, "Great chunks of Neal Stephenson's 'The System of the World' trilogy (review) use the Tower of London as a pivotal location, but I never got a clear enough… Read the rest of the article: Flickr set documents locations in Neal Stephenson trilogy

Gavin sez, "I'm running for Student Senate at the University of Florida. I've developed a personal platform of free culture issues — which might make the first candidate anywhere to… Read the rest of the article: Vote Gavin Baker for U Florida Student Senate!

EFF and other public interest groups are back at the United Nations this week, at the World Intellectual Property Organization's meeting of the "Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a… Read the rest of the article: How the US is boning the developing world at WIPO

Teachers in predominantly black schools in the US have developed a program to teach fractals by using corn-row hair-styles as examples of the form: Each braid is represented as multiple… Read the rest of the article: Using corn-rows to teach fractals

A quantum computer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has solved a problem without running the actual problem — one of the weird-ass outcomes of building and running a… Read the rest of the article: Quantum computer solves problem without running program

These $10 motorized ice-cream cones are just the thing for those of us with very, very lazy tongues. As the bumpf sez, "No more licking around the edges of a… Read the rest of the article: Motorized ice-cream cone for the lazy-tongued

This genius chair/easel provides a huge roll of paper for a kid to sit on while s/he draws, and comes with a five-year supply of paper. The Chair is made… Read the rest of the article: Clever kids' easel/chair is made out of a roll of paper

As of April 2006, it will be illegal to sell used electronics that are 5 years old or older in Japan. Akihabara News says that this is part of a… Read the rest of the article: Japan to ban resale of used electronics

danah boyd has published an excellent paper on the hows and whys of the explosive growth of teen users of MySpace, the most popular social networking site ever. boyd, a… Read the rest of the article: Why kids are on MySpace

The hilarious remixed London Tube map that substituted anagrams of the station names has been censored off the Internet by lawyers working for Transport for London. The page now reads,… Read the rest of the article: Transport for London censors anagram Tube map

John Scalzi's "The Ghost Brigades," the sequel to Old Man's War, is in print and on shelves today. I described Scalzi's Old Man's War as "The Forever War with better… Read the rest of the article: Sequel to Scalzi's Old Man's War: The Ghost Brigades

Someone has found a digital camera in London and has put up a website with enough information to identify the owner if s/he turns up. It's a marked contrast to… Read the rest of the article: Good Sams try to find the owners of a lost camera

The president of Canada's Lakehead University, Fred Gilbert, has banned the use of WiFi on campus because he's worried that inconclusive studies have failed to show that chronic exposure to… Read the rest of the article: Canadian Uni bans WiFi because its safety can't be proved

Kathryn Cramer, an investigative blogger, has begun to publish the results of her research into VEIL. VEIL is a technology that the entertainment industry has proposed to turn into a… Read the rest of the article: Investigative blogger picking at secret "A-Hole" technology