Rough Drafts

This guide to insultingly bad movie physics explains why ricocheting bullets don’t spark, how shattering glass can cut you (even […]

My Taijiquan teacher, Mark Chen, has written a book: Old Frame Chen Family Taijiquan. It’s a terrific introduction to the

Spotted just outside Santa Rosa, a hand-lettered cardboard sign tacked to a telephone pole: Martha Stuart for President!

There’s this guy on my block who is always walking around, grumbling and growling and laughing to himself. He’s tall,

Amazing photos of Chernobyl today, by a Ukrainian woman who likes to bike through the area on her 147hp Kawasaki

Note to Google: Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to launch Gmail on April 1. Note to Slashdot, BoingBoing,

NPR : Study: Pricing Less Competitive Online A study by MIT finds that the Internet, where customers can easily comparison

Sorta: NPR guides us to the budding Appalachian phenomenon of hick-hop. Holler 2 the hood, y’all! Somewhat more successful: this

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but cnet reports that the rise of moblogs is being driven in large part by risque

Xeni Jardin posts a link to these videos of the DARPA Grand Challenge, the recent robot race across the Nevada