What drove Columbus to sail west?

K5 has a terrific FAQ on my fave-rave spice. Damn, I love that stuff. [...]

When Margaret Cho speaks, all the little boys sit up and listen.

Well, OK. All the little boys of a certain orientation, winkwinknudgenudgesaynomore, sit up and listen. First: “Don’t Stalk CZJ!“, an impassioned plea to leave Catherine Zeta-Jones aLONE. Second: a bit on Donald Rumsfeld’s evasiveness, entitled “Indignant, Ignant Rumsfeld“. It’s sort of eerily timed because, for the past several weeks, I’ve been having dreams in which [...] [...]

“So run marathons and fornicate?”

New research into brain-cell production hints at exciting ways to increase new neuron growth. The transcript itself is mildly interesting, but I just love the presenter’s responses. Of course, there’s a pickup line in there somewhere. “Hey, baby, you wanna stimulate neuron production back at my place?” [...]

Retrofit your flashlight with LEDs

Popular Science’s “Ask a Geek” column for July 2004 has this clever hack: how to replace a flashlight’s incandescent bulb with LEDs, which are brighter, less power-hungry, and longer-lasting. I smell a project… [...]

Is this guy single?

Because if he is, I call dibs. Combining the geeky and the lefty, “Bikes Against Bush” is a thesis project which has developed a Bluetooth/SMS-powered dot-matrix bicycle. Yeah. A Bluetooth and SMS-powered dot-matrix BICYCLE. Watch the video. The soopercool part is that it’s being designed to protest the Republican National Convention in New York this [...] [...]