Tag Archives: evil geniuses I have known

Feeding Time

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Matt Ruff

As my reward for supporting her in the Clarion West Write-a-thon, I get a custom-written story by the talented Kelley Eskridge. The story-prompt I gave Kelley was a pair of videos from the YouTube subgenre of “kids being stalked by … Continue reading →

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Many Doctorows died to bring us this information

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Matt Ruff

Via BoingBoing, the Instructables website offers a home recipe for Pop Rocks.

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A question for the mad scientists out there

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Matt Ruff

I just ran across this story about the world’s first transgenic dog, a beagle puppy with sea anemone DNA that causes it to fluoresce red under ultraviolet light. If memory serves, this same trick was done previously with rabbits (although … Continue reading →

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Making quarters smaller… because they can!

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Matt Ruff

My friend Pablos Holman gave a lecture at Seattle’s Town Hall last week. After about half an hour of cranking up Lisa’s security phobia with stories about bump keys, RFID scanners, and other fun hacker tricks, Pablos talked about the work … Continue reading →

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