Spire Nova
Most messenger bags fall into one of two camps: gigantic shapeless sacks on the one hand and precious, overorganized, zipper-encrusted […]
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Science vs. witchcraft.
This BusinessWeek interview with Linus Torvalds contains a very interesting point: Torvalds compares the open-source way of developing software to
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Oedipus Rex, 2004.
“Oedipus, as you know, was the tragic king who killed his father, then married his mother — a sequence of
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How to poop like an astronaut.
NASA Technology Transfer Bulletin #A101-753B explains it all for you.
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Here come the meteors!
I just had a short article about the upcoming Perseid meteor shower published in the San Francisco Chronicle. This was
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Perseid meteor shower to light up the skies
This week, skip the movies and catch some shooting stars instead. The annual Perseid meteor shower will be especially spectacular
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Put the hours in.
Good advice on how to be creative: “If I was just starting out writing, say, a novel or a screenplay,
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Supersonic SC-77 DVD
The next time you’re stuck in traffic with a screaming toddler in the back seat, you’ll wish you had one
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Panasonic DMC-FZ10
What strikes you first about the Panasonic DMC-FZ10 (aka “Lumix”) digital camera is its huge, beautiful Leica lens. With a