© Carpetblogger As we ease our way into the holiday season – after this post we won’t see each other again until 2010 – we thought it’d be appropriate to leave you with some cheery Christmas-related optimism. Unfortunately we read “stories” about...

© Mattgirling We’ve been going back and forth between two different Google Earth technologies, and we honestly don’t know which one we think is cooler. The first is this immersion chamber that some of their engineers built, where you enter a gazebo...

© NontrivialMatt / Flickr There are occasions when what’s called for is a careful explication of different argumentative angles, whether they be multiculturalism vs. individual values or public health vs. private rights or something similarly...

© Jabulani, Deconstructed: Adidas via PopSci A fun story, both on its own and as a way to ease into a year of us providing you coverage of the Beautiful Game. And before you suggest that “providing” actually means “inflicting on,” keep in mind that...

© Google Eventually we’re going to reach a tipping point where cutting-edge Augmented Reality apps become too pervasive to track individually. In the meantime they’re still coming out slowly enough that we can pluck out the prominent ones and pass...