A sister production of the 10 Zen Monkeys webzine, with a focus on weird memes, internet phenomena, and tech madness.
The star of "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" and the inventor of the iRobot talks about building bots for the military, and the fun of synthetic biology.
Dr. Alan Goldstein explains how the leading artificial life researchers are creating a huge hazard by failing to understand the role of chemistry in molecular engineering and manufacturing, aka, nanotechnology. He says the aliens will not arrive from space, but rather, from our own labs, and that by not understanding this clearly, we put humanity itself at risk.
EFF attorney Jason Schultz draws diagrams and addresses the finer points of the free speech case that touched hundreds of bloggers across the seven internet seas.
Infinity, slightly altered social security numbers, giant jellyfish, dark matter, and more.
Science fiction writer Rudy Rucker, author of the book, Mathematicians In Love, claims that any natural process can be regarded as a computation, and that computers are not "digital." Read the companion article on 10 Zen Monkeys here.
Fortuny was the guy Crook was imitating with his Craigs List sex-baiting operation. Like Crook, Fortuny collected a lot of hatred from privacy advocates on the internet; UNlike Crook, Fortuny has a brain and a sense of humor.
[Feel free to remix this video. Simply abide by the terms in this CC license.]The internet's most despised villain, Michael Crook, apologizes to everyone he's harassed with false DMCA takedown notices. These bloggers and webmasters were critical of him for posing as a young girl looking for casual sex on Criags List, collecting the responses, and making the private info public.Read the full article on 10 Zen Monkeys.