The beautiful thing about science fiction is the mystery surrounding the premise. Since the writer gets to create the world, but can’t simply create it from scratch, there’s usually an interesting adherence to reality that acts as the anchor for whatever strange creatures and new physics...

What I'm about to describe here sounds almost like a parody of suburb street-development-by-plumbers, but this is what's on the table tonight at the Board of Public Works Meeting: *LETTER FOR GREENDALE RELATIVE TO A JOINT APPLICATION FOR S. 51ST STREET – RAWSON AVENUE TO COLLEGE AVENUE FOR...

Image: Configuration A2 Mach 5 Civil Transport, Reaction Engines When I see concepts that are received well, the concept itself can usually only take a portion of the credit. Just as important is how the concept is communicated. Some of this is common knowledge: make it look good, choose the right l...

Music’s marriage to the modern computer has opened the doors of creativity to a new world of musicians.  The ability to create, record and edit sound once carried a heavy cost– and can now be done for a few hundred bucks on your home PC or Mac.  But what is missing in this digital revo...

It is undeniable: the booming trends on the Web are micro-blogging and video. Therefore, how can you doubt that a micro-vlogging formula will tear the roof off? Seesmic, the company started by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, aims to fill this spot in the online video space. The idea for Seesmic is...

These are my links for March 5th through March 9th: Sharing Is Caring: 12 Unexpected Examples Of Car Part Prostitution - How car parts are re-used. YTMND - it’s drinking the water - The greatest invention in the world. HearJapan - Japan Nite US TOUR 2009 Sampler - Six interesting free songs fr...

“E’ Dio che parla, non posso parlarvi al momento, ma per favore, lasciatemi un messaggio“. Difficilmente in Italia potremo mai sentire un messaggio di segreteria simile, al cellulare, mentre in Olanda la cosa non è così fuori dal comune. Pensate che addirittura un artista del pae...

Introduction One kind of legal theory attempts to relate the mass of legal materials (cases, clauses, statutes, etc.) to a systematic set of principles.  Such theories may be normative: that is, some legal theories are frameworks for the prescriptive evaluation of legal rules.  Or the th...

Jeff Jarvis recently wrote an interesting article "The Great Restructuring" in which he said, " Large-scale retail will shrink and consolidate and then be transformed by a search-and-buy economy." I think he may be on to something. It certainly applies to our family. It takes too...

This OLED windshield concept has some nice safety possibilities, like a more visible brake light and turn signals. But I want one so I can give a giant digital middle finger to the jerk tailing me.......