An unsigned reader writes "It's not sci-fi, but rather premature robotics delving which is leading Intel to envision shape-shifting smartphones. 'Imagine what you would do with this material,' says Jason Campbell, a senior analyst at Intel's Pittsburgh Lab who's working in synergy with Carnegie Mell...

A new breed of mechanical puzzle is available for all of you who are tired of your Rubik's Cube, Ball or DodecaWTF. They're called MindStrat Puzzles, and they would drive me freaking crazy. Possibly to the point of punching a whole through the wall and catching the neighbor fapping away in his apart...

The Pentaminx is basically a Rubik's Cube on steroids. But not the oral ones -- I'm talking the kind you have to shoot into your buttcheeks. While the original design was created by Andrew Cormier, the completed Petaminx puzzle you see above was cast and hand-assembled by Jason, who clearly has the ...

Bernie refused to go into the living room as long as the yoga ball was in there today, from what Ringo told me. So I just spent 20 minutes shaping her to touch and push the yoga ball around. She was good until it rolled into the kitchen and started making this weird sucking noise rolling around on t...

As i am sititng at my desk with the announcement made and the reality of leaving SMAS setting in, it is kind of a bit overwhelming to think about the journey we are about to set out on, especially as i start to think through the fact that at this time and over the next 12-24 months i wil be setting ...

The latest edition of my weekly updates on my life and adventures in the City of Angels. This one’s a little late, as I had a busy weekend, but I promised to bring you the goods each and every week, and so I do. I spent much of this week buying furniture and various items for my new place, and...

The past year and a half has been the most personally tumultuous time I’ve ever experienced as a Christian believer. At one time or another in this past year, I have re-evaluated every area of my Christianity, often with many tears, prayers and hours of reading. Much of this has been in respon...

I first heard "Lips," by the British act Micachu and the Shapes, on the fine blog MBV last month, and in the weeks since its 80-second length has kicked around my head over and over. It's a jagged little slice of Brit-punk, with Micachu chanting over some instruments that sound like they're barely p...

From time to time, we see articles proclaiming that thin is totally in or curvy is making a comeback. Oftentimes, this proclamation occurs after fuller-sized models (by fuller, we mean a size 4) grace the runway at a fashion show or a curvaceous actress (like Christina Hendricks of “Mad Men...

Last week i got the chance to hang out with Julian Dunham . Julian is currently working 3 days a week for Arrow leadership Australia and a further 2 days a week with the Baptist Union of Victoria, helping them with church planting. (on a side note he is also going to be my mentor for the next 2 year...