Like hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people around the world, I've been stranded by the Iceland volcano, caught on the North American landmass and unable to return home to London.… Read the rest of the article: Magazine by and for the volcano-stranded

Julian Assange, the mysterious and suicidally brave force behind Wikileaks, will keynote at The Next HOPE, the annual hacker/tech conference summertimes in NYC by the folks behind 2600 Magazine. This… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to keynote 2600's HOPE conference, NYC Jul 16-18

North Carolina's tax department wants to ding NC residents for sales tax on purchases from out-of-state etailers like Amazon.com, so they've asked Amazon to cough up a list of everything… Read the rest of the article: Amazon refuses to turn over customers' reading records to North Carolina tax department

From the mysterious and unplumbed depths of the ocean, a National Geographic gallery of tiny sea critters inventoried in the recent Census of Marine Life. These otherworldly beasties are weird,… Read the rest of the article: Tiny otherworldly critters from the ocean depths

More details have come to light in the case of the Lower Merion School District spying on its students with covert laptop webcam software. The school district of the affluent… Read the rest of the article: Spying school took "thousands" of photos of students with covert webcam app, caught kids sleeping, half-dressed

Just to be clear, the creators of Pop-Up Magazine aren't trying to outdo print mags. The San Francisco event they've invented–the third issue happened this weekend to a sold-out Herbst… Read the rest of the article: Performance Journalism

You may now run DaliClock on your iThing.

Mr. Justice Peter Charleton of Ireland's High Court has ruled that ISPs can and should disconnect their customers from the net on the strength of unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement.… Read the rest of the article: Ireland High Court gives entertainment giants the power to disconnect whole families from the net

Tavie sez, "You have to be impressed by this student film, 'After Today Live'. These kids made an incredibly detailed shot-by-shot remake of the Goofy Movie's opening song, 'After Today'… Read the rest of the article: Students remake Goofy Movie's title sequence

The Nepalese government is sending a team of 20 Sherpas to Everest's "death zone" to clean up the dead bodies of those who never made it back from their expeditions.… Read the rest of the article: Nepal to send Sherpas to "death zone" to rescue the dead

Gang Starr's Guru, who played a significant role in New York's underground rap scene in the 90s, has died of cancer-related complications. He was 43. via MTV News

A 35-year old British woman claims she acquired a Chinese accent after a bad migraine. She thinks she has something called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and claims she is annoyed by… Read the rest of the article: Woman suffers migraine, acquires Chinese accent

My pal Tara over at Dangerous Minds found this mashup of Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs" and Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell doing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." As someone… Read the rest of the article: Velvet Underground vs. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Are you a breezy person who goes, "Yaka-wow!"? Maybe you already were, and just didn't know it. Alice Bell, science communication lecturer at Imperial College, London, explains: The main reason… Read the rest of the article: What's up on the Internet: Yaka-wow!

Geologic wonder and part-time smoke bomb, Eyjafjallajokull, was still burping out ash clouds today, though experts say the eruption is showing signs of slowing down. Our thoughts are with all… Read the rest of the article: Volcano science update: Two surprising reasons to go boom

It's a buddy-cop movie plot for the new millennium: Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are teaming up to arrest the Pope when he comes to Britain in September. Dawkins, author… Read the rest of the article: Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are planning to have the Pope arrested in the UK

Marie Myung-Ok Lee wrote a great piece for Slate about giving cannabis to her 9-year-old autistic son. Last summer, we reached the six-month mark in our cannabis experiment. We'd been… Read the rest of the article: Mother explains why she gives pot to her 9-year-old autistic son

After spending his youth happily playing computer and table-top role-playing games as pale-grey-skinned elves with long, straight, silver hair (usually over one eye), or "forcing African-coifed robot pilots into the… Read the rest of the article: Chimerical Avatars and Other Identity Experiments from Prof. Fox Harrell

In other free-form gaming developments, Farbs — the mind behind local favorite 'Game To Get', Captain Forever — has officially unveiled PlayPen, a community site that harnesses the scale and… Read the rest of the article: PlayPen: an open-ended adventure game made of Wiki

By Adam Savage Good evening. I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to read my speech from my new iPad. Yep. I'm not only a humanist, I'm also an… Read the rest of the article: Food for The Eagle – Adam Savage's speech to Harvard Humanism Society