A robot that paints water colors is super. A car that generates dozens of data streams is awesome. When you connect the two the result is super awesome

I recently received a box of Moleskine products to review. I've been using them for a week or so. The Moleskine Portfolio XS ($(removed)) is a small business card and… Read the rest of the article: A grab bag of new Moleskine products

Mr. Hagar, in Europe you can and will drive 55. In a move to reduce the 30,000 annual traffic fatalities in Europe each year, the European Union is planning to… Read the rest of the article: EU investigates equipping cars with automatic speed limiters

oclHashcat-plus is a "password-recovery" tool that chews through 8-million guesses a second. It optimizes its guesses by trying phrases from "the Bible, common literature, and in online discussions,” and by… Read the rest of the article: Password-cracking software runs at 8 million guesses per second

Apps for Kids is sponsored by HuluPlus. HuluPlus lets you binge on thousands of hit shows – anytime, anywhere on your TV, PC, smart phone or tablet. Click here to… Read the rest of the article: Apps for Kids 43: Animal Voyage: Island Adventure

[Video Link] A US Embassy staffer has "departed" Malta after being filmed screaming expletive-laden threats at another driver on a narrow street. (Thanks, Matthew!)

Congrats to Daniel for winning a brand-new Paperwhite Kindle signed by Hugh Howey, the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga and the New York Times bestselling Wool series. Here's… Read the rest of the article: Winner of Kindle Paperwhite signed by Hugh Howey

Matthew says, "The Glendale [California] Unified School District has hired Geo Listening ["Your students are crying for help. We have heard these cries of despair, and for help and attention,… Read the rest of the article: California school district hires firm to eavesdrop on students' social media activity

Your browser does not support the audio tag. This episode of Gweek is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your… Read the rest of the article: Gweek 109: Peter Bebergal and Koichi

This, writes Gawker's John Cook, is a taxi used in "NYPD's indiscriminate and probably illegal spying program." According to the two Pulitzer Prize–winning authors of the book, Enemies Within, it's… Read the rest of the article: Gawker reveals NYPD's "spy taxi"

"[Video Link] University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet… Read the rest of the article: Researcher controls colleague’s motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface

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Joshua Bearman (who wrote the "Argo" story for Wired that was turned into a terrific movie) has a story in the July 2013 issue of GQ called "Coronado High." Josh… Read the rest of the article: The 1960s high schoolers who started a major pot smuggling empire

[high res] Everyone knows about this comic book, which Dick Cheney read as a boy and later used as the basis of his foreign policy during the Bush administration. Here's… Read the rest of the article: 1939 Gumps comic strip predicts modern drone warfare

Here's an excerpt from Weaponized, a new thriller by Nicholas Mennuti and David Guggenheim. Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the country to escape the false charges filed… Read the rest of the article: Weaponized, thriller about a Snowden-type character on the lam [excerpt]

This is Nukeme. I met him at the Tokyo Maker Conference in June. He was wearing a cool MAKE shirt that had a messed up logo. The flaw is intentional.… Read the rest of the article: Glitch embroidery and stitching

The early 1980s were an exciting time for alternative comics. Shortly out of high school I discovered RAW, which was launched by the husband-and-wife team of Art Spiegelman and Françoise… Read the rest of the article: Robert Crumb illustrates the Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick

https://vimeo.com/69235119 [Video Link] HighExistence reports on Atlantis, a "new and improved virtual black market" that offers "cheaper rates, advanced features, ease-of-use, Litecoin and Bitcoin support, and encrypted chat." A turf… Read the rest of the article: Atlantis – "the world's best anonymous online drug marketplace"

A book that I wrote and illustrated in 2002, Mad Professor: Concoct Extremely Weird Science Projects-Robot Food, Saucer Slime, Martian Volcanoes, and More, is now available as a Kindle book… Read the rest of the article: My kids' activity book, Mad Professor, available on Kindle for $(removed)

Can you identify all of the silhouettes in these new drawings that Daniel Clowes drew for the Modern Cartoonist exhibition murals and "Chicago Views" prints? If you can, you will… Read the rest of the article: Can you identify these Daniel Clowes characters?