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A great idea for getting around in the snow, for which Fritz Rice of Seattle's Dutch Bicycle Co. generously credits fixie hipsters.

And the question is�what the heck's a hectometer? Video after the jump.

Charlie Stross figures we're ready for a pendulum swing back in the direction of Sir Thomas More.

Remembering the influence of a teacher, critic, and thinker who brought the Web alive with ideas.

An inventive YouTube user shows that it doesn't take cinematic digital effects to create the morphing inkblot mask of Alan Moore's nasty antihero, Rorschach. Video after the jump.

The teeth of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus remain sharp through a lifetime of rock-scraping. But do they come with a matching fork for easy carving?

As this image from the GOES-13 satellite shows, the snow that hit the Eastern Seaboard was delivered by a formidable storm. Picture after the jump.

At five dollars for 99 pieces of the Darkest Classical Music ever written, it's easy to get into a symphonically nasty post-holiday funk.

With a fabbed flute, we see emergence at its natal stage; the imperfect copy of the old instrument is a promising harbinger of the novel sounds to come.

Exotic lighter-than-air craft�including argon- and methane-filled balloons and hopping dirigibles�offer tantalizing prospects for future missions to Saturn's largest moon.