Back in 2015, the great state of Texas passed The Compassionate Use Act, making the use of cannabis for medical purposes totally cool… in a small number of instances. Only… Read the rest of the article: Texas' new cannabis laws screw PTSD sufferers. Again.

I love comic books and graphic novels. I'm not ashamed to say that dig me some cartoons. Sadly, I've never been able to get into anime and manga. It's a… Read the rest of the article: Akira to be re-released in high definition

If you're a fan of Kentucky bourbon, get ready to cry: According to a number of reports, 45,000 barrels of Jim Beam just went up in flames. From The New… Read the rest of the article: 45,000 barrels of Kentucky bourbon went up in flames

Remember when Amazon introduced the ability for folks easily delete their conversations with any of the Alexa wiretap they'd foolishly allowed into their homes? Boom! Gone! No more voice history!… Read the rest of the article: Amazon's being greasy about Alexa user data. Again.

Here in Alberta, Canada, it's been a frigging miserable summer so far: cold, full of rain and precious little sun. For weeks, I've been mumbling under my breath, in tooth-grinding… Read the rest of the article: Europe just suffered through the hottest June in recorded history

Finding a place home depends on what you can afford, deciding upon what you can live with and coming to understand what you can't live without. Many of us will… Read the rest of the article: Arts & Crafts: build your next home out of shipping containers

Deniss Metsavas was a well-known military officer who frequently appeared on TV on behalf of his country's armed forces. He was also, thanks to a event of passion, blackmail and… Read the rest of the article: A Russian spy's story of fear, blackmail and betrayal

Bottled water is bullshit. Its production and transport to market are sucking the marrow out of our planet and the majority of the disposable bottles that it comes in wind… Read the rest of the article: Find places to top off your water bottle with the Tap App

Using an Arduino, a bunch of code and a little machine learning, Benn Hamm created a cat door to keep his cat from bringing dead–and sometimes live–rats and birds into… Read the rest of the article: This machine learning-assisted cat door keeps kitty from bringing furry surprises home

There's domesticated animals and then there's domesticated animals. Where most dogs have had the mean bred right out of them, this one's an evolutionary step further down the road: it's… Read the rest of the article: Dog deals with owner's dirty laundry

The inside of my head is an absolute crap place for productivity. I tend to fixate on old horrors, recent regrets and small shames that swirl around the inside of… Read the rest of the article: Weekend Tunes: Lustmord – Subspace

The Coca-Cola your rotting your guts out with today isn't the Coca Cola that rotted out your great grandfather's guts. On their way from a recipe sorted out for individual… Read the rest of the article: Cook whips up a batch of 1886-recipe Coca-Cola

Working for a ride-sharing company like Uber or Lyft can be a tough gig that offers low pay, long hours that keep drivers on there road and away from the… Read the rest of the article: Uber drivers in Toronto unionizing to take on The Man

I've never been able to get into Doctor Who, but I loves me some David Tennant. His performances in Broadchurch (Not that crappy American Gracepoint remake nonsense, mind you), Jessica… Read the rest of the article: A thoughtful interview with David Tennant about the loss of anonymity

San Francisco-based Juul and other e-cigarette companies were given a swift kick in the stones today by the Golden Gate City as San Francisco became the first city in the… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco breaks its e-cigarette habit

It's been a crackerjack year, hasn't it? Kids are being held in concentration camps, whole species are disappearing from the face of the earth, our weather is absolutely borked and… Read the rest of the article: Mystery saint giving out $100 bills and encouraging notes in eastern Canadian town

You know what's more badass and relaxing at the same time than going on a week-long canoe trip? Going on a week-long canoe trip in a vessel you built your… Read the rest of the article: Arts & Crafts: Build a canoe from a few slabs of plywood

A few years ago the announcement that Steam would begin supporting Linux was a big deal: it meant that anyone who preferred to rock an open-source operating system over Mac… Read the rest of the article: Valve killing Steam Support for some Ubuntu users

As you may have noticed, a number of bird species have proven capable of mimicking snippets of sound they overhear, be it a melody, the wail of an ambulance or… Read the rest of the article: These Seals are Singing for Science

On the whole, technology has been good to me. In the mid-1990s, I was able to connect with a music magazine in Ireland–my first paying writing gig–via Hotmail. Over two… Read the rest of the article: Flickr offers the best social media experience going