Damn. Boing! Boing! certainly took down David Pescovitz’s marketing survey request in a hurry. It’s too bad, because I would have loved to have seen the comment thread there. The actual survey is still up here, and its pretty basic market droid stuff. What’s your household income, ...

If you want to understand just how complicated it is to determine whether or not a work is still copyrighted in the United States, check out Paul Herman’s analysis of the copyright status of works by Robert E. Howard who died in 1936 but had many works published posthumously (in some cases, se...

Wasn’t it just other day that Michael Arrington was whining about how unfair and mean people were to him? And yet that didn’t stop Erick Schonfeld from running a long story on TechCrunch about a completely baseless rumor that Last.Fm was sharing user data with the RIAA in order to track ...

Nice David Attenborough response in The Guardian to the creationists who apparently send him hate mail, Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give “credit” to God, Attenborough added: “They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying tha...

I am not a watch wearer — haven’t really worn a watch for like 10+ years. The past few days, though, I’ve been wearing a VibraLite 8 watch I ordered off of Amazon and am very happy with it. Of course I’m not actually using it for anything as mundane as telling time — in...

Excellent t-shirt from BustedTees.com, This is a post from Brian.Carnell.Com. Triple Nerd Score T-Shirt...

So my son really wants to play Cartoon Network’s Fusion Fall. I sign up, create a character and all is going well until it comes time to create a name for the character. First, like a lot of online games, Fusion Fall has a random name generator, but it is completely useless because all of the ...

Still waiting for my Open Source Nerd Merit Badge to arrive in the mail, but in the meantime it looks like there’s a new Inbox Zero badge out. Now someone just needs to come up with a nerdy sash to affix these to. This is a post from Brian.Carnell.Com. New Nerd Merit Badge - Inbox Zero...

The flare up over Facebook’s recent terms-of-service change has been interesting, but even some of the people protesting the change on Facebook seem clueless about what they’re actually doing when they post things in Facebook. The big change that people apparently got worked up about was...

Michael Anissimov at Accelerating Future highlights the simple observation behind the transhumanist vision, Part of the rationale for being a “transhumanist�, or, more broadly, having grandiose dreams for humanity’s future, is the extremely simple and mundane observation that the available mat...