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Geeking out here just a little, 26 gigaflops/second for 25 hundred bucks.  Microwulf .    Homepage .  Frickin' cool! The Geekster Phan...

News article today about a new start-up selling solar power solutions for off grid applications like WiFi and security cameras.  Solis Ener...

Today is a good day for cheap, clever hacks!   Check this: Until now, determining the mechanical properties of these thin films was eithe...

Today's piece of  gear head geeky brilliance , a rig for watching teeny weenie particles with a video camera.  Why?  To see why glass is...

Something new under the sun in animal archeology, which doesn't happen every day.  A new and fabulous way to discern the locomotion styl...

Having got nowhere trying to kill Jews and Lebanese Muslims, the Palestinians have settled for killing each other . Hamas fighters overran o...

Today the Supreme Court of Canada announced that collective bargaining is protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Previous decisi...

Ok, so they caught four guys plotting to "blow up" the fuel pipeline that runs into NYC.  Good cop work, a well earned attaboy for...

In a blog post entitled "Good Riddance Attention Whore" , Cindy Sheehan calls it a day.  Seems she's tired of taking abuse fro...

Yep, the Nahr al Bared  refugee camp has had the living crap blown out of it this week.  Bet you didn't know that. On May 20, ... troop...

Remember back in high school when the teacher said matter was made of waves just like light ?  And you nodded while thinking "As IF!!!...

Dear Ms. Delacourt, With regard to your article of May 28th, " Panel loaded with gun buffs ", you say that like its a bad thing....

Jihadis and other like-minded wankers of the world listen up.  Here's what you are messing with . For those of you who didn't get...

Well, here we are back again.  A little boy was killed yesterday, at school, in the Jane/Finch shooting gallery.  Guns are to blame. Ban the...

Here we have an article by Mr. Don Cayo of the Vancouver Sun today.  I couldn't pass this one by.  Its just too illustrative of the ki...

Here's a refreshing change from the usual Liberal crap. Canada's park wardens were stripped of all law enforcement duties and equip...

As I've reported here before, Mars is getting warmer. But now an MSM paper has discovered it ! Woo! Scientists from Nasa say that Mars...

Yes it is.  You kick it under the table and ignore it long enough, it'll start to STINK. Case in point:  University! In their forthco...

Dear Ms. Marsden, I was surprised to read your article "Blasting the Myths" in the Sun today.  Equating nukes with handguns is ...

On a day in which we are being inundated with bad news from Virginia Tech, I thought I'd look at something good instead.  Just to be con...