Don’t miss this interview with Wade Davis. If you’re really pressed for time, skip right to page 4. The shit knife!

Awesome story (with pictures!) of a father who built his son a synthesizer because he couldn’t afford a piano in the 70s. I’m pretty sure this is the circuit based on the description but the only problem is they don’t make simple unijunction transistors anymore so you need two transistors, or a programmable unijunction transistor [...]

Mugshots as accidental art (I’m mainly thinking of the left image)

Meh. Neither McCain or Obama made any serious mistakes. People who were going to vote for Obama before the debates are going to vote for Obama after the debates, and I think the McCain supporters remain McCain supporters. I must admit my experience of the debate was very fractured. I kept running into the other [...]

“Research has shown that between 48 and 60 per cent of young adults watched fake news shows to get information about the 2004 American presidential campaign. [...] Researchers from Ohio State University found television viewers who watch fake news programs are less informed about issues and candidates in election campaigns than those who watch network [...]

A Modest Proposal for Training Future Presidents: You’d think we’d have a very solid process for figuring out the best person to fill the position, but we have been completely clueless on this for more than two hundred and thirty years. And the Founding Fathers weren’t much help on the task of picking a president, [...]

My daughter just grabbed my index finger and middle fingers, one in each hand, and without warning rammed her eyes into both of my fingertips, three stooges style, and started laughing hysterically. When I tried to pull my hand away in surprise (feeling someone else’s eyeballs rolling around underneath ones fingertips is a very unpleasant [...]

This morning I was rudely awakened at 4:00 a.m. by a terrible headache. I tried to get back to sleep but it just kept getting worse and worse. I crashed out on the futon in the living room, mewling helplessly to myself. When my daughter woke up, she came over to investigate. “Dada?” “Dada is [...]

Complete list of banned books at the Wasilla Public Library.

I’m tackling the electronics hobby on two fronts: learning things, and doing things. As far as doing things goes I’ve been in a holding pattern and haven’t made much progress. I ordered some parts (female headers and a tricolor LED) from Sparkfun a while back but I guess so did everyone else (my guess is [...]