Coke: Effective pesticide?
Indian farmers have discovered that spraying their fields with Coca-Cola may be as effective as--and lots cheaper than--spraying with pesticides. An Indian agronomist says: "I think Coke has found its right ...
Face Off.
Remember the John Woo movie Face/Off, where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage trade faces? Well, it isn't science fiction any more.
Jacques Derrida.
Jacques Derrida is dead. The Telegraph has an intelligent and balanced review of his life and work. Derrida's work had a huge influence on my college education, and it was always ...
The Tao of Banjo.
Patrick Costello has put up the whole text of his book, The How and The Tao of the Old-Time Banjo, under a Creative Commons license. Patrick is a generous, down-to-earth, iconoclastic ...
Petal to the medal.
There are 11 different ways you can misspell "pedal to the metal," all of which use legitimate words that Word won't flag as misspelled: {pedal, petal, peddle} to the {metal, mettle, medal, ...
1% in charge.
Researchers studying the behavior of software agents set up a test, called the "minority game," where agents are competing for limited resources. In each round, the agents make choices, attempting to wind ...
What is a nerd?
Paul Graham, in What the Bubble Got Right: "someone who doesn't expend any effort on marketing himself. A nerd, in other words, is someone who concentrates on substance."
Wind rhinoceros.
Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes gigantic, wind-powered, walking "animals" out of steel and polyester sheeting, such as this 2-ton Animalis Rhinoceros Transport. (via Engadget)