Download The science geekiest show on broadcast television was once Futurama, an animated series co-created by The Simpsons' Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, a Simpsons writer and showrunner. The… Read the rest of the article: Futurama's Back, Baby: another new season

Do you love nameless, creeping horrors in the deep? Unnaturally! Do you love fonts? Of course, you do. Thomas Phinney, a veteran type designer, is attempting an unholy union of… Read the rest of the article: Hrii Cthulhu, Goka Font Ph'nglui!

Stereotypes abound of the political cartoonists found in so-called alternative papers: the weeklies full of escort ads in the back and snarky commentary in the front. Matt Bors, on the… Read the rest of the article: Alt Cartoonist Receives High Praise from Establishment

Courtesy of Richard Thompson Cartoonist Richard Thompson's voice was quiet and reedy when we spoke, although the traces of his Maryland upbringing are clear. His voice sometimes gives out on… Read the rest of the article: Helped by friends, cartoonist battles Parkinson's

The foundation of Web security rests on the notion that two very large prime numbers, numbers divisible only by themselves and 1, once multiplied together are irreducibly difficult to tease… Read the rest of the article: Prime Suspect, or Random Acts of Keyness

Roboto, the new "house" font for Android 4, was branded a haphazard mash of classic typefaces. The longer you look at it–and the technological constraints that it aims to transcend-the clearer its virtues become.

Mathias Nitzsche had a nifty idea: using Wi-Fi network names to create a connection between the network's owner and those who spot it in their wireless networks list. His aptly… Read the rest of the article: Say Wi-Fi Hi

Apple is a cipher, and its reasons for making changes often a mystery. A new update to iBooks for iOS devices adds a full-screen mode, a night-time reading color theme, and nicer covers for free, public-domain books. The release notes mention four new fonts, all superb choices, but avoid the fact that three less-loved fonts were removed.

After my first child was born, I found that taking pictures was a problem. The Canon S1 IS I'd purchased was a terrific model, but unwieldy when holding a baby.… Read the rest of the article: Patent Strapcutters

After killing the TouchPad a near-record 45 days after launch, then discounting it in a clearance sale at as low as $99, HP opted to fire up its production line… Read the rest of the article: With fresh TouchPad batch, HP Emulates NeXT

Photo: Rajeev Nair / Ill. Rob Beschizza. Should we pity a once-popular blog when its time in the sun has come and gone? Not so much. I'm watching the sunset… Read the rest of the article: Sunset of a Blog

Matt Jones's invention of warchalking back in 2002 was a lark. It combined the culturally laden notion of chalk signs made by hoboes with the modern nomadic lifestyle of the… Read the rest of the article: Meme Collision Produces 2D Code Stencils

Smartphone apps make it trivial to snap a photo, upload it to a host, and post a link to Twitter, sometimes in a single step. But by storing a photo… Read the rest of the article: All Your Pics Are Belong to Us: at image hosting services, Terms and Conditions always apply

Caroline Spelman. PHOTO: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino One would think from reports today that the UK's secretary of state for the environment and rural affairs, MP Caroline Spelman, had lost her bleeding… Read the rest of the article: Whither Wi-Fi in Warm Weather?

Images: Shutterstock (1, 2) Siddhartha Mukherjee deftly tells you everything you need to know about the current state of knowledge of the risks to human health from use of cellular… Read the rest of the article: Why People Think Cell Phones Cause Cancer

I've been obsessed with QR Codes, those 2D tags that encode URLs and other information, for the last 18 months, having penned a couple of Economist pieces, and this item… Read the rest of the article: Oh, Qrap

I've been unable to nail down precisely why I don't like how WikiLeaks is releasing hidden, secret, classified, and other categories of U.S. government information. I don't believe the United… Read the rest of the article: Clay Shirky's Nuanced Position on WikiLeaks

A routine peeping-tom/self-pleasuring report in a hyperlocal blog in Seattle is enlivened by the following detail: According to witnesses, the man looked like he was in his 30's, white, with… Read the rest of the article: Always Look on the Bright Side of the Fence

I suspect this photo will not appear odd to any of us celebrating mixed families, traditions, religions, cults, vanilla extracts, syncretic faiths, unionism, or pure unadultered atheism with presents this… Read the rest of the article: Chrismakah

Steve Martin isn't the same wild and crazy guy he used to be, according to Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. The New York Times reports that the Y offered to refund… Read the rest of the article: We Liked Your Earlier, Funnier Interviews Better