http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFMIYz0TZ-U ...due, I can only assume, to the strict "Beards Only" policy at the Banhart Compound.

Clockwork Insects

Good gravy, these are neat. Insects rendered as automata.

Free Bill Stickers

This has been making the rounds the last couple days. It appears that everything old is new again.

Common Sense Outbreak in UK

London is not a battlefield.

"The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers," Macdonald said. "They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way."

-- Sir Ken Macdonald

Matt Stuart: Design or Luck?

Matt Stuart proves that excellent design is indistinguishable from perfect luck.

Copyright Creates a Nation of Criminals

John Tehranian calculates his total copyright violation liability: $12.5 million a day.

What better way could there be to create a nation of constant lawbreakers than to instill in that nation a contempt for its own laws? And what better way to instill contempt than to hand out rights so broad that most Americans simply find them absurd?

[Ars Technica]