It's a psychedickian day at David Gill's Total Dick-Head blog, the source for Philip K. Dick esoterica and ephemera. Today, David announced that he'll spend the summer reading and blogging… Read the rest of the article: Philip K. Dick blog: Erik Davis and Three Stigmata

The artisans at Pressure Printing have released a beautiful limited edition print by Seattle artist Robert Hardgrave. (Full image at left, detail at right.) Pressure Printing's relief printing process enhances… Read the rest of the article: Robert Hardgrave print from Pressure Printing

Max Hell, 5, was denied admission to a Catholic school due to his last name, his parents claim. According to Max's father, the Melbourne, Australia school were first willing to… Read the rest of the article: Controversy about Hell boy's Catholic school admission

Christopher Deam is an architect/designer best known for transforming the interior of iconic Airstream trailers from vinyl and faux wood grain Americana to modern, minimalist aluminum elegance. In fact, one… Read the rest of the article: Video: Christopher Deam, Airstream architect

BB pal Todd Lappin, proprietor of faux-firm Telstar Logistics, reminds us that today is the 40th anniversary of Telstar I, America's first active telecommunications satellite. Telstar I is still orbiting… Read the rest of the article: Telstar's 45th anniversary

A four-story, 30,000-foot public bathroom recently opened in Chonggqing, China. The outside has a bizarre cartoony Egyptian facade while the inside holds more than 1,000 toilets of various designs. Apparently… Read the rest of the article: Four-story public bathroom

Up until the 1960s or so, it was common for telephone numbers to start with two letters instead of numbers. Those letters were abbreviations for words, called telephone exchange names,… Read the rest of the article: Telephone EXchange Name Project

MIT students are converting a Porsche 914 into an electric vehicle. A professor bought the car on eBay and donated it to research. The students hope to gain insight into… Read the rest of the article: Electric Porsche

Neatorama posted the origins of several common symbols, reprinted from a book titled Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader. Exclamation Point Origin: Like the question mark, the exclamation point was… Read the rest of the article: Origins of common symbols

Maker Faire will descend on Austin on October 20-21 at the Travis County Fairgrounds. It's our first full-blown Maker Faire outside of the Bay Area and it's sure to be… Read the rest of the article: Maker Faire Austin: "auditions" this Sunday!

James Coldwell, 49, disguised himself as a tree when he robbed a bank in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday. He had tree branches attached to his clothing and head with… Read the rest of the article: Man disguised as tree robs bank

A new seven wonders of the world were announced on Friday. The wonders were selected by a global online and SMS poll conducted by a nonprofit called New7Wonders. The new… Read the rest of the article: New 7 Wonders of the World

A gearhead jeweler is selling handmade rings shaped like car engines on eBay. From the item description: My name is David Kauffung. I've loved anything to do with cars and… Read the rest of the article: Engine rings

A new study supports the theory that chimps can be altruistic just like people. Children as young as 18 months-old also seem to help adults, even strangers, without any immediate… Read the rest of the article: Ape altruism

At left, Horror comix artist William Ekgren's psychedelicreepy cover for the April, 1953 issue of Weird Horrors. Ekgren's career is profiled in the third volume of Craig Yoe's terrific Arf… Read the rest of the article: Arf Forum: Unholy Marriage of Art & Comics

This creature, apparently a half-squid, half-octopus, was found off Hawaii's Big Island. Possibly a newly-discovered species, it was accidentally sucked up into a deep-sea water pipeline from a depth of… Read the rest of the article: Possible "octosquid" discovered

In 60 AD, Greek engineer Hero built a self-propelled and programmable cart to carry automata around a theater stage. According to University of Sheffield computer scientist Noel Sharkey, this was… Read the rest of the article: Recreating a robot from 60 AD

On this week's NeoFiles podcast, RU Sirius and co-host Jamais Cascio interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak about living the prankster life and ethical hacking. The Woz has been in the… Read the rest of the article: Steve Wozniak interviewed by RU Sirius

At MTV.com, my old pal Gil Kaufman surveys the unusual, eccentric, underdog, and truly independent characters running for president of the United States in 2008. You can't tell the players… Read the rest of the article: Wide variety of freaks running for US president

From the Associated Press: Exposure to methane gas led to the deaths of four family members and a farmhand, but whether they suffocated from the fumes or drowned in 18… Read the rest of the article: Cow shit kills farming family