The newest episode of Radiolab is about parasites. It features what is one of my favorite links from the past few years: the story of Jasper Lawrence’s quest to infect himself with hookworm in…
Software developers Lee Byron and Owen Yamauchi have released Facebook desktop notification software for the Mac. An independent release, it places a Facebook icon in the Mac OS Menu Bar, with…
UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves has officially gone gold in North America! That means only 32 days until it hits store shelves. I couldn’t be more proud of the teams at Naughty Dog and Sony who have…

The news that everyone sent me today (thanks, everyone) is that a South African company called The Unlimited has managed to send data using a carrier pigeon faster than by using…
U.K. car show co-host James May will spend weekend in house built almost entirely of Legos as part of his new television series.
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store, Jailbreak/pwnage
We’ve talked before about ways to control a BitTorrent client from the iPhone, and some unofficial…
Originally, there was a Straits Times blog post by Christopher Tan about the leak of the OPC changes entitled “Internet steals minister’s thunder”. The original link (now dead) was a…

Like the record companies, the software industry wants young people to stop pirating copyrighted content. It’s debatable whether the record industry’s war against consumers had the…
Okay, you’ve got two options: watch a webinar, or watch french maids in skimpy outfits (think the Halloween variety, and then extract a few more layers) host a webinar on how to buy…