If you’re really interested in the X-Files, I’m the guy who got Chris Carter (and a stunning brunette not his wife) to come to a Navajo peyote ceremony outside Window Rock, Arizona. It’s quite an interesting story, and I’d be willing to tell it for… one

You know you’ve always wanted to see what would happen if you could control a first-person shooter with your penis — or, if you don’t have one of your own, the penis of a friend. Maybe you want to literalize the term “cock block,” or maybe you want to l

85 years old this month, Weird Tales is the magazine of the “bizarre and unusual” that sustained the career of H.P. Lovecraft and his scifi-horror pals back in the 1920s when it first launched.

It seems an unlikely combination, a Noel Coward play in a Grand Guignol theater. But in 1922, a London company trying to duplicate the success of Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol of Paris chose Coward’s one-act play The Better Half as part of an evening devo

As the managing editor of Needled.com, a relatively new online hub of tattoo culture and community, [Marisa] DiMattia gets to pursue her passion- the one she keeps covered with conservative suits on days at the office, spent in corporate legal consulting

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

Pretty self-explanatory, actually. A map.

Opening April 12! Interactive technologies will soon make the Library of Congress and its collections more dynamic and accessible than ever. This Library of Congress Experience will offer “hands-on” interaction with rare cultural treasures in ways tha

The first patent for a mechanical suit appeared in 1890, but exoskeletons, both real and imagined, took off only recently.

Gadgets that track—and help lower—your stress

While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a fantasy with the XOS Exoskeleton.

I’ve decided to honor an entirely different group of people with this collection of romantic cards you can e-mail to your loved ones on February 14th, or any other day of the year. It’s Scientist Valentines!

“Oligocene halitosis: we has it.”

“NY Governor David Paterson is expected to sign a bill requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases shipped to the state, even if they have no operations or employees working there. The so-called ‘Amazon tax’, which applies to Internet r

Afghanistan has a real-life version of Doc Brown, the kinetically hyperactive and clever inventor in the Back to the Future movies.

‘BrassRingWriting’s Playwriting Podcast’ is the companion podcast to BrassRingWriting.com.
It’s the show where Doc, Scott and Trey discuss writing for the stage, working with
theatre professionals, current playwriting news and upcoming playwriting conte

Wow, apparently even bass guitars exist in a strictly binary gender construct. Who knew?