Tonight, at 8PM, the Los Angeles hackerspace CRASH Space (of which I'm a member) will be hosting the first WikiLeaks Wednesday. This will be part symposium, part round table discussion,… Read the rest of the article: To do tonight in LA: WikiLeaks Wednesday at CRASH Space

I hate carrying stuff around in my pockets, and am obsessed with EDC and making sure the few things I do carry are multipurpose/functional/awesome enough to justify the pocket space… Read the rest of the article: Little clip is brilliant solution to "pocket bulge"

Redandjonny are just a couple of stormtroopers with a camera and a blog. They are currently celebrating the holidays, just like us.

This card was designed by Peter Miller as an alternative to the kicking-of-doors and yelling-and-screaming that usually goes on when someone in a car recklessly endangers the life of a… Read the rest of the article: Magnetic Yellow Card – cyclist-intervention

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These prints are a one/two punch square in my art/design and Macintosh obsessions at the same time—so insanely cool I can't stand it. Susan Kare, the designer who created these… Read the rest of the article: Susan Kare's Limited Edition Macintosh Icon Prints

Having trouble figuring out what to get this holiday season for the web/media/privacy/security nerd in your life? Might I suggest the Wikileaks "Insurance" file on a swanky micro USB drive… Read the rest of the article: Gift Idea: Wikileaks Jewlery

Via UpTown Almanac, word of a new artist hitting the streets—well, the walls of SF: Sandwich, who's making bold statements with this Halo + Collateral Murder mashup. This is the… Read the rest of the article: SF Street Artist Sandwich Mashes Up Halo/Wikileaks

Swedish designer Jonas Eriksson designed this incredibly amazing interface for an iPad app called "76 Synthesizer" which may or may not even exist (the internet isn't giving me a straight… Read the rest of the article: 76 Synthesizer: Stupidly cool iPad app interface

What the I don't even… Found here. Thanks Erica! UPDATE: This photo was taken by Trent Nelson, who is a friend of a friend (small world!). Of course I didn't… Read the rest of the article: TSA WTF OTD

Earlier this year, Los Angeles hosted it's first CicLAvia (blogged here previously)— an event which closed off 7.5 miles of city streets to cars for a full day allowing cyclists… Read the rest of the article: CicLAvia on Kickstarter

In what might be the coolest thing any of my friends have ever done, Alen Yen recently became the person my 12 year old self is most jealous of and… Read the rest of the article: Incubot Voltron Is Go!

If this image is to be believed—and I have no reason not to, other than that I found it on the internet—the rebel squadrons behind Anonymous (attn. "news" hacks –… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

Last night was the opening event of Roböxotica Festival in Vienna, Austria. Roböxotica is a celebration of the underappreciated art of cocktail robotics. Held annually for the last 12 years,… Read the rest of the article: To Serve Man (Drinks): Roböxotica 2010 opens in Vienna

Jonathan Mann has been writing a song a day for almost 2 years. Today his song is about the TSA. He doesn't like them. Watch the video on YouTube or… Read the rest of the article: Awesome song about the TSA

Earlier this year I had a dream. Last night at the Crash Space (Los Angeles hackerspace) weekly meeting, that dream became a reality, thanks in part to the dedication and… Read the rest of the article: Sparkles: The Soldering My Little Pony Unicorn

"Seriously, WTF!" That was the reply I sent back to Glen E. Friedman the other morning when he sent me the photo above. I'd just woken up and could barely… Read the rest of the article: Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77

The story of industries paying lobbyists to influence legislation that benefits their business is nothing new—but what about when that industry is a privately-owned and operated prison system? NPR reports… Read the rest of the article: Privatized prisons in Arizona helped draft laws to send people to prison

Things could be going from really bad to even worse around the Gulf of Mexico, for residents and for BP. An investigation by Al Jazeera reveals that the dispersants BP… Read the rest of the article: Report: BP dispersants are making people sick

Some say that a piece of jewelry can say "I love you." This says something kind of like that. Massachusetts-based multitalented artist Leah Piepgras has created a pearl necklace that… Read the rest of the article: A Special Necklace For Your Special Lady