Yesterday - Boing Boing
Above: 3D image of Martian rock formations, from Road to Endeavor blog. (via William Gibson, Paul McAuley)
Yesterday - The Huffington Post
An Oscar nominee as best foreign-language film, Israel's Ajami is a reminder that things can always - always - be worse.
Set in the predominantly-Ara...
2 days ago - The Huffington Post
Google Earth is a virtual globe application. This is a program that can be used to view the Earth's surface -- in both 2D and 3D. You can search byÂ...
2 days ago - The Huffington Post
Regardless of the obvious, Pres. Obama is going to re-engage by inviting Republicans to come into the room with their ideas on health care, with Kathl...
2 days ago - The Huffington Post
I've got an idea for how to change independent film and kick-start the kind of serious attention that video-on-demand seems to require.
And it all s...
2 days ago - The Huffington Post
The Red Riding trilogy is exactly the kind of project that video-on-demand was made for.
Make no mistake: These are high-quality mystery-thrillers, m...
3 days ago - FOX News
Fire marshals on Monday were preparing to start their investigation into a massive explosion that rocked an under-construction power plant where gas l...
4 days ago - The Huffington Post
Every time the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sends a mission to Mars, I tell my non-technical friends that what they do is like teeing off in St. Andrews...
5 days ago - The Huffington Post
One of the films that played at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Midnight series, Adam Green's Frozen is the horror equivalent of a one-joke movie -...
6 days ago - CNN
Despite calls from President Obama to beef up the program designed to provide security aboard U.S. flights, the Federal Air Marshal Service is in disa...
6 days ago - The Huffington Post
Chia Seeds (Salvia columbariae, S. hispanica)
Though we've all heard of chia pets, this tiny ancient black seed is a bonafide nourishing food...
6 days ago - Wired
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez swaps his fierce guitar for a penetrating camera lens as his new movie, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, premieres in the Netherlan...
6 days ago - The Huffington Post
I've never actually read a book by Nicholas Sparks, nor do I have desire to.
After all, his novels regularly find their way to the screen. So I feel...
7 days ago - The Huffington Post
By Michael Grabell, ProPublica
The chairman of the House oversight committee has asked the Department of Homeland Security for an independent investi...
7 days ago - Lifehacker
We've previously explored the brown-sugar-loosening powers of a slice of bread, but if you want to keep your dark brown stuff from clumping, skip buyi...
7 days ago - The Huffington Post
There aren't many films that move the needle in terms of offering a new style of action, but the film released in America in 2006 as District B13 (it...
A week ago - The Huffington Post
HEMET, Calif. — A Southern California man posed as a U.S. marshal to kidnap a distant cousin's wife and falsely deport her to the Philippines, p...
A week ago - The Huffington Post
Last Friday, Mr. Obama and the GOP staged the equivalent of a British Parliamentary Question Period in front of the TV cameras. It showed the quick-th...
A week ago - The Huffington Post
The biggest surprise of the 2010 Oscar nominations was how few surprises there actually were.
For the first time in recent memory, none of the best-d...
A week ago - The Huffington Post
President Obama has delivered on his promise to expand nuclear energy -- big time. But can Republicans take "yes" for an answer?
Obama's new budget c...
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