Getting a poor signal from your remote controls? Want to boost the signal range a bit? Just stick the device under your chin, and allow some mysterious properties of the human cranium to amplify the signal. [Bruce Sterling]

Paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists, start checking your meals thoroughly or move to a clear broth diet – your tin-foil hat won’t help you now!

Even to a bona-fide computer obsessive, the to-and-fro over Vista’s DRM has been a bit tedious. What you need is the opinion of someone who takes an objective look at the customer baseline – someone like Bruce Schneier. And Mr. Schneier, he says ‘leave it well alone’.

Wind power is a lovely idea, but the major flaw is scaling – you’ve got to set up a bunch of huge towers to do anything useful, right? Well, not necessarily.

How do you explain that the universe began in a state of relatively low entropy? Here’s one explanation: our universe began as a fragment of an exploding universe (and will in turn spawn other universe shards.)