Ash Kalb

I like to build things, like companies and robots. I like to fly things. I like people, unless they are people I don't like.

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Game of Thrones, This Map is Not to Scale

Mark Milian released his e-book titled Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs, which chronicles — among many things — the prickly side of Jobs that we all found so…

2010_10_04-Hulu.jpgWe’re big fans of the streaming video site Hulu, but we’ve been puzzled by the lack of food content there. Yes, there has been some video from Food Network, but only clips — never full…

(Cross-posted from the Google TV Blog)

It’s been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we’re happy to give you an update on our progress. For…

Oral contraceptives Photo by outcast104 via Flickr.
A new study explores the surprising cognitive effects of contraception

You aren’t yourself anymore. It’s a familiar complaint heard by…

Hugh Pickens writes “Ever since television caught on in the 1950s, the FCC has been getting complaints about blaring commercials but concluded in 1984 there was no fair way to write regulations…

Trailrunner7 writes “Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its Gmail messaging service about widespread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The…

The two new Arduinos should spell good things for the Arduino heads out there, but meanwhile, on the other side of the tracks… Secret Labs is launching its .NET-friendly Netduino…

Atomic Iran Iran’s quasi-official news agency released this image in an attempt to illustrate their nuclear intentions. The new Bushehr reactor is the country’s first nuclear power plant.

transparent-aluminum.jpg See-through metal, yo. What’s next, opaque gas? “Whoa GW, you’ve got a mysterious brown aura about you. Also *choking* — why’s it smell like somebody died in here?” IT WAS THE DOG, I…

The artists at Pink Cake Box made a wedding cake inspired by the webcomic xkcd:

The top of the cake includes cutouts of the comic characters with a red heart on a wire between them. The…

A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from war with PTSD: have them undergo intensive psychotherapy — while they’re…

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After taking a look at the new red-band trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s Machete I am left with only one question: Are there any kills left that we haven’t already seen. Zowie. There’s blood…

So I’ve seen a tornado form, and, like an idiot, just stood there staring at it — until it started moving towards me, at which point I ran, and felt the wind pushing at my back, until I was about a…

Sometimes it feels like the Military-Industrial Complex only exists to keep us entertained with tales of laser weapons and robots that eat enemy combatants — not that we’d complain…

You’ve heard of this Love Plus thing, right? This Nintendo DS-based “dating simulator” is apparently a big deal in Japan, giving Otaku the opportunity to chat up (and kiss) girls the…

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