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

Too stupid for words: Virgin Mobile unveils the left-handed Sony Ericsson LH-Z200 mobile phone. The number pad looks like this:

“Felons and foreigners can, and do, own computer voting machine companies.” So says environmental activist Lynn Landes, quoted in Kim

MR told me about this full-body improvement on Rochambault (or “Rock-Paper-Scissors,” as most of the world outside the SF Bay

I have to thank Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing for posting a link to the L5 Society web site, which

There are some vaguely disturbing Gummi bear experiments happening on my desk right now.

More than you probably ever wanted to know about how to test digital cameras. And still more about digital imaging

Oh. my. god. The BED IS ON FIRE!!! No, wait, that’s just the alarm clock. Nevermind.