Posts by D. H. McKee

Europe stumbles on Echelon spy network

Nearly seven months after the European Parliament adopted a report that recognised the existence of Echelon, an international spy system...

Hollywood Fertilizes Profits with Crop Circles

E-mail: press@csicop.org Hollywood Aims to Reap Summer Box Office Harvest from Field of Hoaxes-and Skeptics Say Pseudoscience Is the Fertilizer....

Yahoo admits rewriting members’ e-mail

Palo Alto, Calif. . If you ever used Yahoo! mail to ask a potential employer to “evaluate” your resum�, you...

Canadian physicists try to rewrite Moore’s Law

When Moore’s Law finally fails . and that’s inevitable, physicists say . what will happen to computers? A technological breakthrough...

All the Wee Eight Leggedie Beasties

Saw “Eight Legged Freaks” tonight. Just as bad as I thought it would be, and yet, better than I was...

Eight Legged Freaks

Just as bad as you thought it would be, and yet, better than you were expecting. “Eight Legged Freaks” is...

Hot barbecue bike

Made some pretty tasty hot barbecue sauce tonight. I had some leftover habaneros from the last batch of hot sauce,...

Cold Lobotomy

AAAAAAAAHHHH! Get these germs offa me!!! Damn cold. It’s only been a couple of days, but it seems like I’ve...

PowerLabs RailGun Project

Ever wanted to make a Railgun? “The primary objective of this project is to successfully design and construct a linear...

Extracting Flash Capacitors from Disposable Cameras

A friend sent me this link. Apparently it’s useful for those who wish to build railguns or something: “There are...