Stalking Venus

You can call it Meth, Tik, Speed, Crank, Crystal, Ice, or anything else you want. Fact is that 4% of Aussies are using it. Technically, that means that four out of every hundred people you meet in Australia, are speed freaks.
This according to a study performed by the National Centre for Education and Training on [...]

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There’s a great little review over at the Universe Today website of the Celestron Skyscout ‘personal planetariam’. A gadget that can tell you all about the stars and other celestial objects you point it at.
From the review:
“Turn it on and GPS technology takes over. Within minutes, the Celestron Sky Scout had pinpointed my location on [...]

“The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth’s climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.”

Finally someone has made inroads into slightly more comfortable aeroplane seating.
Thompson Solutions, a U.S. based company has created seats that give you an extra 2 inches of leg room, as well as a wall to lean against for each seat. By the looks of it, you won’t be fighting for the armrest either (although the [...]

This story in from the New York Times. Picture by Sirio Magnabosco.
Found via: BoingBoing. Click here for my personal comments.
MILAN — The two friends, both performance artists, hatched the idea about a year ago: wearing white wedding dresses, they would hitch-hike from Italy to the Balkans to the Middle East to send [...]

It’s shit like this that makes me fear for our species.
Seriously.
It’s not so much that someone woke up one morning and thought, “Well hey! What the fuck. I’ll make an iPod case that looks like uncooked meat!” as the fact that there are other people out there who’ll think “Well, hey! What the fuck. I [...]

Modern Mechanix - January 1970!

Here’s a nice little idea.
This website allows you to anonymously email your spam-happy friends and ask them to stop sending you stuff, without hurting their feelings (or, strictly speaking, without getting embarrassed yourself!)
Here’s the link.