76-Year-Old Man With Purple Urine
You encounter some fascinating stuff reading the New England Journal of Medicine. Take NEJM’s Image of the Week this...
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
In case you haven’t noticed yet, at least one Techyum contributor has been making a pig of himself with...
American Scary
American Scary is a fun, fascinating, wacky new documentary about the all-American tradition of horror movie hosting. From my...
Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies
In her Livejournal, anthology editor Ellen Datlow links to this Centripetal Notion gallery (which Cory Doctorow also blogged at...
Starbucks PWNED by Bejing’s Forbidden City
Reuters reports that The Forbidden City coffee shop has opened in the former Chinese imperial palace in Beijing. It...
$100 Laptop Offered to US Consumers (not for $100)
BBC News reports that for a limited time the One Laptop Per Child Project will be selling the “$100...
First Lawsuit Filed To Enforce Open Source License
It’s called “open source” software for a reason. But it looks like one company might not be paying attention...
On Becoming Shock-Resistant
There’s a bit of blogging going on about Naomi Klein‘s new book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster...
H.G. Wells Stage Festival in NYC
The following is from Fangoria… oh, how I wish I lived in NYC sometimes. Halloween kicks off early this...
Nine New Ebola Cases in Congo
The BBC reports that nine more cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;...