Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits.

Make the holidays bright for your favorite hacker without spending any money at all. Well, maybe you'll spend a little bit of money�as they say, it's the thought that counts.

Houston, we have a problem: we need to hear from you. Join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter, and share your tips and comments, too.

Old-fashioned telephone handsets and film cameras: gadgets that redeem the present by way of obsolete technology.

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Mark Moffet explains how a botfly came to parasitize his skin�and how it escaped�illustrating in the process the extent of his commitment to the cause of biodiversity. Video (not for the squeamish) after the jump.

On October 7th, 1930 � slender and bright; like a string tense and silent in anticipation of the purpose of her note � Beatrice Warde was introduced to the British Typographer's Guild. The speech she gave would change the way people thought about type for the next fifty years... and should be burnt into the flesh of anyone who is making a gadget to this day.

Now you can bicycle to the Internet (almost), on a networked stationary cycle that adds layers of gaming, interactivity, and social media to the spinning workout.

The global security apparatus meets its match in the Internet.

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