Yikes. Judging by the video, this coil hand gun is not a good toy for your cat.

A new treatment has been developed for standard Kevlar body armor that allows for thinner layers to be used without compromising protection. The resultant product is extremely light and flexible, allowing it to be used over areas of the body that previously would have been impossible, such as the arms and legs. Be sure to watch the video behind the link.

For my friends on the right: the linked satirical article is both really funny and blatantly, unrepentantly partisan. Then again, if you claim suicide in a jail cell is a form of asymmetrical warfare, you’re begging to be made fun of.

All my former compatriots at Tapwave were snatched up by Motorola for a secretive project. Now I know what they were working on: the sure to be a megahit Feng Shui detector.

The Wall Street Journal has published an “aren’t they weird” article about online romance. Why is this news? People start relationships by mail, on the phone, after sharing a bus on the way to work… It would be surprising to me if people didn’t start relationships after playing in an MMORPG, given the higher fidelity for interaction in a “role-playing” environment.