Tuesday, December 31, 2024

More airships from the "English Jules Verne"

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We'll be back to serious blogging in 2025, but for now I'm taking it easy. See you on the other side. Today's dose of retro-futu...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Cool pictures from the "English Jules Verne"

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The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith . It was h...
Friday, December 27, 2024

You should check out Tom Scott

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Another YouTube recommendation.  Scott made an astounding number of entertaining and informative little videos. He recently announced he was...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Strandbeesten

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Still taking it easy for holidays and posting more cool videos. Created by Theo Jansen . You'll want to watch this in full screen. ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Christmas with Little Nemo

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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Maybe we should state all holidays as Eve powers

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Monday, December 23, 2024

I miss CollegeHumor

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 We'll get back to the serious stuff Monday, I promise. My favorite Katie Marovitch sketch.
Friday, December 20, 2024

As we've said before, if you've gone through the holidays without hearing "Sugar Rum Cherry"...

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 ... you have not had a cool Christmas.  
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Sixties television was filled with heart-warming Christmas episodes often featuring orphans

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The Untouchables got a lot of criticism during its original run for its depictions of violence. Can't imagine why. [Taking it easy wit...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Eight years ago at the blog -- Evangelicals have always been passionate about the war on Christmas. They just used to be on the other side.

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[December 1, 2016] Tom Hanks, creepy CGI Santa Clauses, and the theological canary in the coal mine I've been making the point for a wh...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Lord Peter Wimsey on the enshittification* of Tonka trucks -- a Toys for Tots follow-up

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* Being a bit loose with the definition of the term. [Updated with cooler and longer video clip including Tonka truck as spare tire.] As men...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Twelve years ago -- serious news outlets were still taking seriously a plan to colonize Mars with a reality show...

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And as far as I can tell, none have apologized since then. Friday, December 5, 2014 Mars One -- libertarian ideo...
Friday, December 13, 2024

And you thought the space hotel was embarrassing*

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From CNN : Now an Austrian company wants to extend this opportunity for deep-dive delights to the world of superyachts, by bu...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Either a 2% or a 75% chance of rain

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Part of my daily routine is to check the weather in my neighborhood and various nearby destinations (between its size and, more to the point...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Another indication that the original Drake Equation was worthless

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One of the oft-noted problems with the Drake Equation was the many ways it assumed that alien worlds would look, not just like Earth, but mi...