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The global security apparatus meets its match in the Internet.

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." �James Joyce

If you've followed Gearfuse for awhile, no doubt you've noticed changes in the last few weeks. We're expanding on the coverage of gadgets and inventions that Gearfuse has long featured, dialing up our filters to gather a broad spectrum of amazement across science, technology, and culture. We're asking big questions (sometimes too big!), overturning our assumptions about discovery and innovation, setting our clocks to awaken us to technology's past as well as its future. The first change happened early in November, when I joined Gearfuse as editor and lead writer.

With cofounder Sergey Brin taking a role in development, Google sets its sights on social.

Mashing up machinima with real-life performers, refreshing the low-geek vernacular mode.

There's a Chomsky reference and a Borges allusion here; add the fish and the formic acid, and this track offers more than enough science, technology, and culture to satisfy us. Video after the jump.

Unless you grew up in the muds of Mono Lake, you had better be careful opening that box.

A whimsical and elegant printing block for Chinese characters that explores the enduring puzzle of writing.

We've met the shadow biosphere, and it is us.

Kevin Bacon's ad for the Logitech Revue reminds us that with personality in the cloud, we're all unwitting doppelg�ngers now.