Rough Drafts

We’ve just published a second “100 Greatest Gadgets of All Time” story — this one featuring 100 of the best […]

Somebody wrote a giant message to his sweetie in the Utah desert. A satellite captured a picture of it, and

I’m wasting way too much time playing shooting arrows into oncoming hordes of medieval soldiers, archers, and ogres. I haven’t

Here is one cool 8-year-old: Hey, Klingons Have Feelings Too “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation

“Anytime you lose a high-profile customer, that hurts in ways that are not quantifiable but that still hurt.” –Sageza Group

MIT’s Technology Review has a little piece on the first computer game ever, 1962’s Spacewar for the DEC PDP-1. Also

What happens if oil isn’t cheap anymore? Our farming and food systems collapse, the suburbs implode, a period of violence

It’s 1:50. Plus 1,439 other minutes–all illustrated with multiple photos–at the curiously engrossing Human Clock. A new shot every minute,

Bodies embedded in plastic for display in San Francisco’s Masonic Center are now decomposing, while on display, and they’re leaking.

I’ve sat through Wagner operas that moved the plot forward faster. Sure, the computer generated imagery is amazing–but overwhelming. It