I’m amazed at the bizarre attempts to create tanks in the 1910s. It was a very new enterprise, and no one was quite sure what the best design would be - so there were a lot of strange experiments before everyone settled on the tracked tank with a single turret on top. Here’s [...]

According to a report from the BBC (to listen to the story, you’ll need RealPlayer), a number of wealthy, right-wing businessmen (including giants like J.P.Morgan, and the leaders of U.S. Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company) plotted a coup against President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1934, intending [...]

Too weird.
Gang Kidnaps Gamer to Get Password Using Fake Orkut Date
An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours [...]

Please stop making games into movies and vice-versa.

“Are we actually starting to close in on laser weapons? Could be. For years, ray gun researchers have been saying that 100 kilowatts is the minimum power required for battlefield-strength blasters — a level that hasn’t been hit (yet). But Navy officials now claim they’ve got the makings of a workable ray [...]