I spent the last years making technology calm and pleasant to use. This is roughly how I did it.

In a series of gruesome videos, a man wearing a cowboy hat mutilates a Ukrainian prisoner of war before murdering him. Open source evidence suggests the involvement of a Chechen-led paramilitary group.

Available now on Steam and Nintendo Switch I started this game back in 2020 as a fun little side-project to pass the time during the pandemic with lots of help from my son. Back then we didn’…

In 1976 Julian Jaynes published his controversial book The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, introducing the hypothesis of a two-chambered brain-mind model that preceded the evolutionary development of the conscious mind. Jaynes'…

As Craig Wright’s legal tussles pile up, the world is no closer to knowing who the currency’s inventor really is

Update on Microsoft Teams & Tutanota

Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" finally makes it to the screen as a TV series Friday, when it premieres on Netflix. Here's how it happened.

There’s a javanoscript emulator for the TI83+, TI84+, and TI84+CSE calculators called jsTIfied, which was written by Christopher Mitchell, founder of the calculator fan site cemetech.net. There’s not a whole lot of reasons to use it over something else if you’ve…

When was the last time the US navy boarded an enemy warship? The last battle between sailing ships? The last naval battle of World War 2 of course!

Nature - Systematic measurements of the interactions between proteins found on the surfaces of human leukocytes provides a global view of the way that immune cells are dynamically connected by...

Here’s a not-so-brief story about troubleshooting a problem that was at times vexing, impossible, incredibly challenging, frustrating, and all around just a terrible time with the bare-metal …

Some aircraft from the early jet age proved too dangerous for normal ejector seats. The solution? Seats which fired through the cockpit floor.

Embrace leisure and abhor the need to always be productive to actually become productive

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light…