Here’s a new term for you: “Bushmeat”. Unfortunately it doesn’t refer to hoards of zombies descending upon the current administration and chowing down on the oval office floor, as lovely a thought as that might be.
Alas, it refers to the rats, monkeys, elephants, bats, and other wild animals from Africa that are being gunned [...]

I probably should have been posting a great deal this week about alternative energy sources, there’s so much to say on the matter.
My sister Joanna works for Green Mountain Energy, the largest retail provider of cleaner electricity to residential and commercial customers in the U.S. Green Mountain’s electricity comes primarily from wind, water, [...]

Though unconfirmed, the accompanying technical explanation of this ancient Darwin Awards winner gives it a measure of believability. The story goes that a curious sailor, having determined the electrical resistance of his skin, attempted to discover the resistance of his blood… by jamming the ends of a multimeter’s probe, powered by a 9-volt battery, into [...]

The Bay Area Red Cross has a great new ad campaign running in San Francisco; it looks like quite the attention getter. Hit the jump to see why (oh yeah, I’m luring you in after the jump, but I don’t want to spoil the punchline).
Update: Jason DeFillippo of Metblogs, who took the original pictures, has [...]

Let’s be realistic before getting excited—that’s $20B spread out over ten years, so the equiv. of only $2B/year. As the Red Herring article acknowledges in the closing quote from Peter Liu, chief executive of New Resource Bank,
Banking is an $18-trillion market, so it’s still a drop in the bucket, but they’re going in the right [...]

I get some of my best ideas and worthwhile news feed from Live Journal. The trick, of course, is being connected to people who are infinitely smarter and more plugged-in than yourself, even if by two or three degrees of separation. Most of the rest of it is egocentric though often amusing crapola.
There’s Nick Currie, [...]

You’ve just put your dump truck stacked with coke and hookers into the ditch—now you’re hoofing it from Johnny Law. You’ve only got a few seconds before the choppers and backup arrive so escape is now or never.
Assuming the cop is of moderate fitness and you’ve got the power of powder propelling you, what’s your [...]

The Ionic Breeze and other similarly functioning air purifiers are at the center of a running controversy that has stemmed nearly since the discovery of air ions themselves.
In the words of Niels Jonassen of the Technical University of Denmark, ions…
…are not charged molecules or atoms. They are clusters of mostly water molecules (say [...]

The once hotly-debated practice of ECT or Electroconvulsive Therapy is currently out of fashion in favor of an increasingly diverse array of drugs. Nevertheless, it is still being performed on about 100,000 people in the United States every year. I read this on Wikipedia so it must be true.
According to the page, ECT is [...]

We’re not going to go into a lot of DIY electricity hacks this week, because that’s the domain of other, far more knowledgeable folks like our friends at MAKE. But I’m making an exception for this one, not only because it’s a terribly simple hack, but it also illustrates one of the primary dangers of [...]

…I can’t help but think of this story a close friend of mine once told me. Terrible, wonderful story. Most embarrassing story I may have ever heard, as well as one of the strongest arguments for always packing in a bag small enough to fit in an overhead compartment.
We’ll call him “Carl”, but obviously [...]

There must be fifty way to leave your lover, one of them being ditch her for Hawaii. However, if you do so from New York City you’ll still have to deal with the debilitating effects of jumping multiple time zones in a single bound, superman. Perhaps that’s a small price to pay.
If you’re in the [...]