Another day, another crazy patent. DomainNameWire has the story that GoDaddy has successfully received a patent on "Announcing a domain name registration on a social website." The patent, 8,276,057, was filed back in September of 2009. Take a look at the claims for yourself to understand exactly what's being claimed, but reading through them, I'm at a complete loss as to how this is considered worthy of ...

Blueprints are cool for the same reason a lot of art is cool. You can?t quite wrap your head around what you?re looking at. It?s something clearly full of planning and purpose, but there?s too much going on. Swallowing the whole thing in one single bite is just a bit too much for the human mind to digest.

Maybe this is why the latest work by Robert Strati is so fascinating. He mixes detailed schematics with abstract art, combining topics from music to astrophysics and hot air balloons in intense diagrams that constantly sidestep literality.

With the simultaneous efforts to both assert fair use as a right of the public and the government's aim to limit its application, I always find it interesting to watch creators' attitudes and reactions to the complicated navigation of using copyrighted material in their own works. One might say it's like trying to get through a bush maze in the dead of winter. Often times the threat of legal action simply kills off a film that would have otherwise been made, or du...

Virtually all of the masterpieces of modern architecture have one thing in common: They?re constructed, at least in part, of concrete. Popularly maligned as the stuff of ugly, depressing housing blocks or cold industrial buildings, the material has also enabled the best designers to create the most breathtaking structures of the last century, from Le Corbusier?s Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright?s Fallingwater to Oscar Niemeyer?s Brasilia and Tadao Ando?s Church of the Light.Those and many other Modernist landmarks are represented in Concrete, a new book from Phaidon ...

1. Mountain Biker Gets Wiped Out by Antelope Waaaiiit for it ... ouch.

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While most people have been taught to fear and loathe bacteria and other microscopic organisms (just watch some soap commercials), healthy people actually carry around more bacterial cells with them than their own human cells. It's estimated that there are ten times as many bacterial cells on a typical person than the number of cells that carry a person's own genetic code. About 100 trillion microscopic life forms usually live peacefully on (or in) our bodies, but the microbes that cause disease make us suspicious of all of them. In our battle to defeat the bad guys, though, we should be careful to limit the collateral damage. Here are just a few projects working on fighting "bad" bacteria without killing them all.

1. Derrick Rose The Chicago Bulls point guard starred at the Windy City's Simeon Career Academy in high school before playing one season of college ball then getting picked first overall by his hometown pro team in...

There's been a whole lot of talk about openness in government, but so far, very little action. Many vague statements and unkept promises have raised the public's expectation of actually being involved, but when push comes to shove, legislators seem much more comfortable doing things the old, closed-door way.The public has been pushing back against this lack of transparency. The Texas Open Meetings Act requires that most government meetings be open to the general public. There are a few exceptions, but generally speaking, all qualifying meetings must be be...