Kyle Durrie, a letterpress printer, wants to put a portable press in the back of a bread truck, travel the country, and teach about printing. It's a charming idea, and… Read the rest of the article: Letterpress A-Go-Go

Who is the most-read person in the world? It's not Dan Brown nor J.K. Rowling (or God): it's likely Matthew Carter, the designer of the Georgia and Verdana typefaces, Bell… Read the rest of the article: Black and White and Read All Over

Seattle police use a dedicated Twitter account to report the details of verified car thefts. It's crowdsourcing police work! Police in other cities have tried this, but Seattle has a… Read the rest of the article: Twitter, Where's My Car?

Kevin Bacon plays his own superfan in creepy verisimilitude in this ad for the Google TV-based Logitech Revue. It's like Being John Malkovich crossed with Misery crossed with a Fargo-like… Read the rest of the article: One Degree of Kevin Bacon

I went in for surgery yesterday morning to repair a small umbilical hernia. Mildly graphic material follows. My belly button done did me wrong. Having only had a few minor… Read the rest of the article: I Am a Bicycle Tire Tube

The streets of Seattle are no longer safe–for cute little dogs and fiber-optic cables. First, The Seattle Times reported today on the strange case of a dog being electrocuted as… Read the rest of the article: Seattle Streets Are Gangsta

The Incomparable podcast features a bunch of serious geeks talking in alternate weeks about recent and classic sci-fi and fantasy movies, novels, comic books, and television shows. Our gang is… Read the rest of the article: Harry Potter and the Potboiling Podcast

Level 3 has accused Comcast of demanding fees to transfer data from Level 3's backbone to Comcast customers. Level 3 describes this as "Internet online movies and other content," which… Read the rest of the article: Level 3 Says Comcast Wants Fees to Transfer Movies to Users

The Google-backed Android phone platform has a huge problem with fragmentation, or the number of different releases and adaptations of Android for different phone platforms over its history. Or this… Read the rest of the article: Do Androids Dream of Fragmented Sheep?

The Glif, an iPhone 4 tripod adapter, can now be purchased by anyone. The little adapter that could came into being in part through a Kickstarter crowdfunding effort designed to… Read the rest of the article: Glif Available to Public

I'm not ashamed to admit that I harbor unnatural feelings towards my servers. If programming and writing are both expressions of one's personality, then the content and systems on a… Read the rest of the article: Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Co-Lo, Do

The latest on the breaking story about Wi-Fi killing trees ups the ante! A reputable news source reports that Wi-Fi's effects are far worse than Dutch researchers originally stated: trees… Read the rest of the article: Wi-Fi Causes Forest Fires

A breathless report from IDG News yesterday spread like a forest fire: Wi-Fi kills trees! Kills 'em dead! Oh n03s!! Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant… Read the rest of the article: I Am The WiMax and I Speak for the Trees

Meet Stephanie Laursen. She's a letterpress printer, who wants to set up her own shop one day. She's already apprenticed at three locations. She's practical about what she needs to… Read the rest of the article: The Modern Face of Letterpress

The exaflood was the catchy name wrapped around a prediction that exabyte-scale demands for data would destroy the Internet, making it unusably slow and erratic. Year after year, Internet doomsayers… Read the rest of the article: Exoflood an Exoyawn

One might be tempted to ask: Can God make a signboard so big that even He can't illuminate it? Spotted in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, otherwise known as the… Read the rest of the article: God Watches Mad Men

Firesheep sniffs unsecured connections with major Web sites over local networks and lets a user with the Firefox plug-in installed sidejack those sessions. A trope has spread that the way… Read the rest of the article: Password Doesn't Shear Firesheep

The things one learns, when one has children. Many facts about fire trucks, planets, geography, tiny people who live in one's house, faeries, and…knocker-ups or knocker-uppers. We brought home from… Read the rest of the article: Knocked Up in Lieu of Alarm Clocked

Master disassembler iFixIt is promoting the Self-Repair Manifesto. The slogans are music to the ears of anyone who believes in the joy of discovery, whether you're learning about nature, abstract… Read the rest of the article: You Have the Right to Repair

Tragic news today from the browser mines. An explosion rocked the Chromium operations, resulting in the death of good taste, simplicity, and utility. The resulting slag mixed together social networking,… Read the rest of the article: Explosion in Web 2.0 Factory Leads to Rockmelt