As a teaser for Maker Faire Austin, October 20-21, MAKE: bloggers Phillip Torrone and Bre Pettis created a delightful old-timey short film about the upcoming DIY extravaganza. Take a gander… Read the rest of the article: Maker Faire Austin: "Adventures in Time" teaser film

The winners of the Nikon Small World photography contest have been announced and they are breathtaking. Seen here is the 1st Place winner, "Double transgenic mouse embryo, 18.5 days (17x),"… Read the rest of the article: Small World 2007 photomicroscopy winners

Markus Kison's VanityRing is a prototype ring that displays how many hits you get when you search for the name of the wearer. (Or anything else you type into Google,… Read the rest of the article: Google hit count jewelry

Joel over at Boing Boing Gadgets spotted this beautiful articulated crayfish model, carved out of cow bone. Link, Discuss at BB Gadgets

Over the last three decades, Paul Dimitriu has designed jewelry for astronauts (and their spouses). More than 1,500 of his pieces, often inspired by a mission's official crew patch, have… Read the rest of the article: NASA's secret jeweler

Scientists report that spontaneous brain activity, bursts of electrical noise in our neurons, may be what causes people to sometimes screw up simple physical tasks. For example, basketball players who… Read the rest of the article: Random neuronal firings cause mistakes

A man tried to change a US$1 million bill at a Pittsburgh convenience grocery store this week. Problem is, the biggest bill in circulation is a $100. After the cashier… Read the rest of the article: Counterfeit $1 million bill

In today's New York Times, Rachel Aviv profiles the Free Culture movement emerging on campuses of students and young people. These activists are fighting the good fight for the copyleft.… Read the rest of the article: NYT on Free Culture

On Friday, vandals destroyed seven photographs by Andres Serrano hanging in a southern Sweden art gallery. Apparently, they brought along someone to videotape the attack. The video, annotated with commentary… Read the rest of the article: Serrano photos vandalized

University of Washington researchers are developing a new "Vocal Joystic" interface to make software more accessible for people who don't have use of their hands or arms. The software converts… Read the rest of the article: Vocal Joystick for accessibility

The International Astronomical Union has given asteroid 1994 GT9 the new name of 7307 Takei in honor of George Takei, the actor who played Hikaru Sulu in the original Star… Read the rest of the article: Sulu's asteroid

New York City's Jen Bekman Gallery has a new online component called 20 x 200 where each week they issue two artist prints–one photo and one work on paper–and sell… Read the rest of the article: Laura Levine fine art print, just $20!

As BB readers know, machine artist Todd Blair suffered a catastrophic brain injury after the recent Survival Research Laboratories performance in Amsterdam. Todd has not awoken since the accident and… Read the rest of the article: Wednesday: Dorkbot-San Francisco Todd Blair benefit

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 went to two scientists who discovered the nanoscale physics phenomena that enables data to be so densely packed onto hard disks, enabling, for example,… Read the rest of the article: Nobel Prize to physicists behind hard drive science

The current issue of Scientific America Mind looks at how neuroscientists are using brain scans to study the biology of spiritual experiences. The fMRI images seen here are from a… Read the rest of the article: Neuroscience and God

Three men were arrested in downtown Cincinnati for dropping water balloons from atop an eight-story building. They allegedly targeted rubes who stopped to pick up a dollar bill that the… Read the rest of the article: Cops bust water-balloon pranksters

Last year, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) was checking out undersea piping 900 meters down in the Gulf of Mexico when a sperm whale swam up to check out the… Read the rest of the article: Sperm whale video

It's hard to see in this photo, but the broguing on the toes of these Barker Black wing tips is in the pattern of a skull and crossbones. Hand-finished, they're… Read the rest of the article: Skull wing tip shoes

Tanks-A-Lot of Northants, UK, rents military tanks for memorable occasions like proms, weddings, and "corporate fun" days. From the "Corporate Fun" page at their site, TankLimo.com: The resultant benefit to… Read the rest of the article: Rent-a-tank

Our pal Loren Coleman's Portland, Maine home-office doubles as the International Cryptozoology Museum, a literal cabinet of curiosities devoted to "hidden animals" and oddities related to his Fortean passions. The… Read the rest of the article: Inside Loren Coleman's Cryptozoology Museum