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Random Nerds believes that we as a collective internet body are capable of great things. We might even be able to save the world, if we don’t destroy it first. Half-Baked Ideas to Save the World is where we’ll try and harness that power with probably terrible possibly decent hypotheses and schemes. *** When I […]

Since it began with Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been built on technology. From the plots of the movies – which often revolve around recovering pieces of technology or preventing them from falling into the wrong hands, to the heroes themselves and the origins of their powers – the technological pervades Marvel’s storytelling. […]

I’ve been using Belkin’s WEMO line of products since 2012, and in that time I’ve developed a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with these things. You can read all about in my first article about WEMO devices – aptly named “Life with Belkin’s WEMO, a tale of broken promises” – but that was then, and this […]

In the background of www.la, a site offering registration of the top-level domain .la, is a panoramic snapshot of Los Angeles. It hits every note of the city’s postcard-caliber iconography: a sequence of palm trees, a russet coastal sunset, the jewel-lit monoliths of the downtown skyline: “.LA is the domain that says ‘local to LA’,” […]