A tiny magnet embedded in your finger can give you ESP for sensing invisible electromagnetic fields -- until it shatters into pieces and slowly reassembles itself in your flesh. By Quinn Norton.
The internet's premier torrent site is back online this week -- three days after police carted off its servers. Now site administrators insist the error messages and slow loading times besetting the resurrected site are a result of increased popularity, not legal pressure. By Quinn Norton.
The new collaborative web is awash in sites that collect, rank and critique user-submitted links. Paul Adams takes a look at the most popular link aggregators and determines their relative coolness. In Webmonkey.
Election officials could learn something from the nuclear missile technology of the Cold War, where punch-tape storage and purely mechanical devices were preferred over hackable electronics. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
Plonk fermented with younger tipplers in mind would probably send drinkers with more-discerning palates running for the spittoon. But when it's sold in a cute pink can with a straw -- well, how can one resist? From Forbes.com.
Mercury is unarguably a neurotoxin in large doses. But special-interest groups are muddying the message when it comes to the real potential for harm posed by the fish we eat. By Gretchen Cuda. Plus: Can You Cook the Mercury Out?
The latest release from Google Labs lets users edit spreadsheets, share data and collaborate with others, all without leaving the browser. Plus: Does Web 2.0 signal the end of privacy? In Monkey Bites.
What's the first thing you do when you decide to eat nothing but monkey chow? Start a blog, of course. Plus: A commencement speech you can watch in your underwear. In Table of Malcontents.
