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Hey, Ross: when you’re done with the floors in your house, I have an idea for your next project.

Today in Science Express, some MIT scientists announced experimental confirmation for a method of relatively efficient non-radiative wireless power transmission. Basically, they lit up a 60W lightbulb even though the power source was 2 meters away without making anyone sterile in the process, and it only took 150W of power to pull it off. Imagine [...]

If you want people to be smarter, all you have to do is tell them that they can make themselves smarter. Yeah, sounds ridiculous, right? But check it out. It’s a given that most people think that intelligence is fixed – some people are just smarter. Maybe it’s genetics, and maybe it’s upbringing, but once [...]

Like Midas, I recently ventured to my local multiplex to check out Al Gore’s lesson in effective presentation skills: An Inconvenient Truth. Now, being the skeptical sort of guy that I am, I naturally started looking for movies that show the other side of the story. Fortunately, I found two! “Is carbon dioxide a harmful [...]

On Monday, Maura and I finally got out to see An Inconvenient Truth up at Potomac Mills with our good friends Jon and Ingrid. They are soon to be moving out to California, where Jon is going to study for his PhD in Oceanography, so they were excellent people to go see this particular movie [...]

Times Dispatch Story Wilder: Braves balking on downtown ballpark Braves official ‘blown away’ by mayor’s talk This story blows my mind. I don’t even know what’s happening- there seems to be utter confusion about the whole project and/or the RTD writer is terrible. This story should be important to anyone who cares about the city [...]

Seriously check this out, on my wife’s W2: Insert finger here and slide along this edge…

Welcome regulars and guests to Haduken’s first, and Virginia’s umpteenth Virginia Blog Carnival. The VBC offers “just a sample of the topics Virginia bloggers have been writing about during the week. We hope everyone’s curiosity will be piqued to read more of the selected posts, thereby giving more exposure to each participating blogger’s site.” See [...]

While checking out RVAblogs, I saw that there were a couple articles about teachers over at bacon’s rebellion. I am eating lunch at my desk because I was stood up by my lunch dates, so I figured I’d talk about something I’ve thought about before: teacher salaries. While many people argue for raising them, I’d [...]

Has anyone heard about this? As the title suggest I am either instilled with a healthy southern xenophobia, live under a rock, or this hasn’t been covered by the MSM. All are totally possible. Apparently two (Muslim) Parisian teens crawled into an electrical relay while fleeing police and were — wait for it — instantly [...]

My mind is blown. George Takei is gay. Also, and I sort of already knew this, he was in a Japanese internment camp in the US during WW2. That’s when we rounded up all the Japanese-Americans we could find and rolled them into concentration camps after Pearl Harbour. You know, just in case. Sulu is [...]

Halloween is coming, and so I have decided that Haduken should have a pumpkin carve-off. So carve or paint you pumpkins take a pic and send it to Max (I’m making him the judge). The only rule is that you can’t use the stencils that are sold in stores. Some of you may know from [...]

I’m not even kidding, and neither is Samuel L. Jackson.

Richmond City, and The Counties™ have announced voluntary water conservation. Basically this only applies to those of us with houses and things to water – such as grass and crepe myrtles. The guidelines are as follows: No watering on Mondays Odd addresses water on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Even addresses water on Wednesday, Friday, and [...]

This post is about how I got annoyed at Kanye West tonight.