By Marc Laidlaw Both of my kids, several years apart, were assigned Frankenstein in high school. Both were excited to dig in, based only on what they knew of Shelley’s creation from pop osmosis. It was a book about the most famous monster of all. No, not Godzilla. Frankenstein! But…
When Context Labs teamed up with UK consumer group Which? to produce an outstanding report on the surveillance, privacy and security risks of kids’ “connected toys,” it undertook the reverse-engineering of Hasbro’s new Furby Connect, a device that works with a mobile app to listen and watch the people…
A family of three (including a 7 year old girl) on a British Airways overnight from Vancouver to London spotted bedbugs crawling on their seats and alerted the crew, but the crew said the flight was sold out and wouldn’t move them, so they spent 9 hours getting gnawed by…
Among the many internet trends people tend to gravitate towards, difficult, nonsensical, or ridiculous math problems receive a load of attention. But sometimes, things aren’t what they appear to be. An absurd math problem grabbed the attention of the internet earlier this week, causing a mini uproar among very smart…
United Airlines barrier at San Francisco International Airport.Image: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Nicole Gallucci2017-07-06 15:47:01 UTC Here’s an evergreen statement: United Airlines, ya done goofed. United is back with its latest facepalm-inducing incident, which involves taking a seat away from a child. On Wednesday, NBC News reported that Shirley Yamauchi,…
The Monster Scouts are a wonderful thing: monster-obsessed makers who have created a collaborative, detailed, LARP-ish world in which monsters are real and an imaginary scouting organization called the Crow Scouts, founded in 1907, has operated for more than a century to help our monster friends. Monster Scouts…
