I can't say the thought ever occurred to me, but apparently enough people think it's a good idea to get high, film themselves and post the results to YouTube that… Read the rest of the article: Scientists mine YouTube to study effects of Salvia divinorum

Gizmodo did a good thing and a bad thing yesterday. The good thing was publishing the gadget-blogging scoop of the decade–this summer's iPhone!–an honor shared by Engadget and a blogger… Read the rest of the article: Gizmodo vs. critics of iPhone scoop

Readers of Charles Burns' creepy comic book series Black Hole will recognize these faithful recreations of the yearbook photos of the monstrous teenagers from the series. The project was a… Read the rest of the article: Characters from Black Hole comic brought to life

MAKE Volume 22 is on newsstands now! Automate your world with remote control. From pet care to power outlets, from toys to telepresence, we'll show you how to add a… Read the rest of the article: MAKE Volume 22: Remote Control

Hotel hotshot and aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow announced his plans for a Budget motel, er I mean, inflatable base on the moon. Meant for 18 astronauts to call temporary home,… Read the rest of the article: Robert "Budget Suites" Bigelow's moon bases

Here's Tim O'Reilly on the future of Cloud computing and the "Internet of Things," speaking at the MySQL CE 2010 conference." As Bruce Sterling sez, "It looks like he's just… Read the rest of the article: Tim O'Reilly explains the Cloud

I'm at the airport in Paris waiting for my flight to Dubai, which will presumably get me out from under the volcano ashes. What an amazing journey this has been.… Read the rest of the article: Photo of cancellation signs at Paris airport today

A great move by Google today: The search giant is "launching a new Government Requests tool to give people information about the requests for user data or content removal we… Read the rest of the article: Google will provide more data about government requests for user data

The EFF reports on another ratcheting back of data privacy control for Facebook users: "Today, Facebook removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal… Read the rest of the article: Facebook further reduces privacy control for users

Alexa Meade, 23, is a Washington, DC-based artist who paints on top of her subjects and puts them in real life settings. (No, you can't see the pixels. This is… Read the rest of the article: Living "paintings"

Is Lady Gaga dumb? This is the question that Mark Dery ponders, as only Dery can, in his latest True/Slant essay: "Aladdin Sane Called. He Wants His Lightning Bolt Back:… Read the rest of the article: Mark Dery on Lady Gaga

Salt & Fat is a lovely food blog maintained by two guys, Neven Mrgan and Jim Ray, who spend their days developing software and web products and every other moment,… Read the rest of the article: Cooking with Salt & Fat

Copyright claims against various Hitler "Downfall" parody videos have resulted in the removal of these videos from YouTube. The DMCA claimant is Constantin Films, the German production company which owns… Read the rest of the article: Hitler "Downfall" video meme is DMCA'd

Jay Thunderbolt owns a Detroit strip club. In his basement. He runs the whole thing himself, and makes sure that Club Thunderbolt is open 24/7, by appointment. From the Metro… Read the rest of the article: Man operates strip club in his basement

David C Verducci, the Superintendent of Schools of Glen Rock, NJ, has sent a letter to state governor Chris Christie, asking him to spare education in the state's round of… Read the rest of the article: Superintendent of schools to NJ governor: spare education

Today, the Christian Science Monitor published a damning, six-part investigation into carbon credits, and concluded that they are a hive of fraud and villainy, calling them "a 'Wild West' market… Read the rest of the article: Carbon offsets: fraud, exaggeration, and poorly run projects

Arkizzle sez, "The BBC has put up a great quality version of the propaganda-style, Daleks' To Victory! poster, from the newest Doctor Who episode." Daleks to Victory! (PDF) Previously: HOWTO… Read the rest of the article: Dalek propaganda poster

The good folks at the Pew Internet and American Life project have published their latest report, looking at the remarkable transformation that the mobile phone continues to effect on the… Read the rest of the article: Kids and mobile phones: waiting for the surveillance shoe to drop

The BarRectum was an actual bar built inside a giant anatomical model representing the human digestive system, from tongue to anus. Dutch design firm Atelier Van Lieshout created it several… Read the rest of the article: Rectum-themed bar

Miss Ticklenot (shown here) is one of several new steampunk figurines from Mauser Earth, 5cm high (1/35 scale). The whole collection is just terrific, and would make a great addition… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk figurines from Mauser Earth