Fourteen years later, Slashdot co-founder Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda has stepped down. In a stirring, moving note, he talks about the history of Slashdot and what he’s going to get up to next.
Slashdot has been read by kernel engineers and billionaires. B…
ThinkGeek has added to the vast canon of housewares and edibles that pay homage to Han Solo in Carbonite with varisized hancarbonite silicone ice-molds.
ThinkGeek :: Star Wars Han Solo in Carbonite Ice Cube Tray
Han Solo in carbonite throw-pillo…
Why do lower middle-class and working class Americans support tax breaks for the rich? New research suggests it might not be about aspirations—i.e., "Maybe I could be rich someday." Instead, says the Economist, people are more concerned wit…
Real bad. On PBS NewsHour last night, correspondent Paul Solman went to the line outside the Letterman show in NYC and showed people three different pie charts representing the possible distribution of wealth in three different countries. Most peop…
Using some basic open-source circuit boards, Matt Richardson was able to build a system that mutes his television every time an unnecessarily prominent celebrity is mentioned. It’s called the “Enough Already.”
It works by tracking the text in the clo…