Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST

"War and Peace is a one-button 2-minute game that replicates the major game mechanisms found in Civilization. As in Civilization, you have to choose carefully which technologies you research, when to build up your cities and when to be more aggressive, depending on which kind of victory you're shooting for (conquest, domination, or spaceship). You just do it with a single button."

BERKELEY BREATHED [Vice Magazine]

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:43 PM PST

"For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and Mad magazine. In a word: seminal. In two words: fucking seminal."

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:22 PM PST

"Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products."

Legends of Vietnam: Bronco's Tale [Air & Space Magazine]

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 06:05 AM PST

Great article on the OV-10 Bronco aircraft...

After the Deadline [Add-ons for Firefox]

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:23 AM PST

"avoid misspellings or a bad turn of phrase with After the Deadline's excellent grammar and spellcheck Firefox extension." Use F7...