The Senate passed the $410 billion omnibus stimulus package tonight after a week of widespread grandstanding and feigned horror over $7.7 billion in earmarks — which is simply a means of allocating streams of existing funds — split between 95 Senators. And yet here’s John McCain, g...

Holy crap, I finally finished typing it up. In celebration, I give it a proper header, even though this is possibly the most obscure fandom I have ever written for and there's no damn place to link to it from. TITLE: "All Downhill From Here"AUTHOR: Cathryn ( catslash )FANDOM: The Fix WORD COUNT: App...

Yesterday, a number of readers forwarded me the following mass email: Hey guys! We are casting for a television documentary series about bicycle messengers. It's for a popular youth oriented cable network (we cannot disclose this information at this time, but PROMISE you know the network). We are se...

The idea wasn't to make a vaguely-menacing, sometimes-silly testament to the Pentagon's far-reaching spy powers; quite the opposite. This Defense Intelligence Agency promotional video was supposed to be a way for the group to explain to the rest of the military-industrial complex "who we are an...

Thanks to a reader tipoff, I recently found myself visiting the Aurumania website and checking out their flagship fixed-gear, the "Gold Bike Crystal Edition": I don't know what kind of components the "Gold Bike Crystal Edition" has, and the website wasn't any help. However, it does have some elegant...

Today in Times Comment Anatole Kaletsky: Gail for Governor - and rip up the rule book Ben Macintyre: Why the Pakistan badlands must be tamed Matthew Parris: I'm a lumberjack and I'm just about OK Melanie Reid: Who are the addicts, the victims or their families? Vernon Bogdanor: Why not talk to the L...

Britain's military launched a new, robot-heavy Defence Technology Plan last week. And it's packed with everything from morphing, unmanned copters to drone swarms to liquid armor.  One of the stars was the Future Protected Vehicle – a "lightweight vehicle designed to achieve the effective...

Today in Times Comment Daniel Finkelstein: Forget mob rule. Sir Fred Goodwin must keep his money Ed Smith: Why my sport is now in the line of fire Chris Ayres: The fat of the land is back in fashion Alice Miles: Humiliated, hopeless, paralysed. Time to go John Reid: How to turn on the taps and get b...

I love the ingenuity of this solution to one of the biggest cancers of modern technology: A/V remotes' complexity. And with "complexity" I mean "stupidity." My mom loves it. [Designing Interactions......

The recent buzz surrounding the weapons grade awesomeness that was Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman caused these guys to rate the greatest TV interviews ever. Not surprisingly, this one is number one: And Batman and Rassler Jerry Lawler made a booze-fueled apperance on the list. Sadly, I have the feelin...