By now you’re probably sick and tired of blogs all over listing Halloween-themed gadgets, how you can use gadgets to be scary, bla bla bla. It’s not like I made such a list last year anyway, so I’ll just hook you up with this electric chair haunted house prop, scary video below. It’s definitely relevant to Halloween!
Even better, this is a DIY project! Too bad you probably don’t have time to make something like this now, with trick-or-treat scheduled for later tonight. Ah well, the instructions will probably still be available from Makezine indefinitely, so maybe you’ll have something ready …read more

Here’s a months-old comic that compares what what British writers Aldous Huxley and George Orwell though of the future, based on their most famous works, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite Orwell’s classically haunting belief that technology will make us slaves to a totalitarian government, Huxley’s fears that technology is making us more shallow depressingly seems more plausible (click the thumbnail below for the full version):

The comic above is basically a visual version of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death.
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In the grand tradition of the 10-Minute Robocop Rap, here’s Forrest Gump in a minute:

As the 2008 Beijing Olympics comes to a close, it’s hard not to look back 20 years ago, when the games were hosted by South Korea. Luckily, YouTube has all the action. Take a look at the torch lighting below, and make sure to watch 4:50:

Now that’s how to cook dove!