Bernard Pietenpol designed and built this plane (rather one like it) during the Great Depression. He called it the Air Camper, and for less than $2000 you can do it too. Plans can be found here.
Found a couple of cool vids on it too. Check ‘em out.

Web 3.0, or the Semantic Web, is close at hand. A web that learns is a web that will eventually become self aware. In fact, it is believed by some that the web already has some level of consciousness. That is not to say that the web will take on a human like self awareness [...]

Today is Patch Tuesday. This is the day when Microsoft updates and patches all the errors and vulnerabilities that have been found in the recent past. This week the geeks at Microsoft address 34 security problems within 13 updates. Eight of these will be labeled critical.
Of those, two very serious issues are being addressed.  The [...]

SecurityTube.net is the youtube for hackers and security minded programmers. It has videos that range from how-to videos to discussions and talks about hacking and security.
The website also has videos on DIY hacking and mods such as controlling your home with a cell-phone and hacking a wii-mote to help people with disabilities. I think we [...]

I am a big fan of podcasts.  I subscribe to a very large number of them, knowing that I will never have time to actually listen to them all.  But there is one that I never fail to get, Geek Radio Daily.  I call it my go to podcast, to use one of those really [...]

Zombaritaville is a blogspot…blog which takes popular tunes and changes the lyrics up for zombies. fascinating.
Here’s a taste:
Attackin’ Diane
To the tune of Jack & Diane by John Mellencamp

There’s a zombie attackin’ Diane
Some undead cat’s come around, wanna eat her glands
His ugly face is one bad scar
Diane’s combatin’ zombies in her hotwired car
So head on over [...]

In my usual way of wasting time on this here Interweb thing I came across something pretty cool on the QMX website (QMX has some of the coolest props and statues from Serenty, BSG, and other fan favorites). They asked singer/songwriter Marian Call to do an album celebrating Serenity and BSG. Marian is [...]

Since the mega-popularity explosion of micro-blogging service twitter, it’s no surprise that similar services geared to more specific groups and interests are starting to spring up.  The newest on the block is a service called Torrent Twitter and it is exactly what it sounds like.  It is a very “twitter-esque” micro-blogging service that allows its [...]

A few years ago I got an iPod. I gotta say that it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever owned. Being able to have all my tunes with me really rocks. But I’m a fan of not just music, but audiobooks as well. I found that listening to a [...]