Aviation inventor Paul MacCready dies at 81
Here’s a guy who really embodied the essence of the inventor; someone who makes fact from fiction, and creates real, …
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Cool rocket video for a Friday
There’s something about watching the test-firing of a new rocket engine that really starts the day off right. Since it …
Book signing/reading at Barnes & Noble!
I’ll be at Barnes & Noble in Wheaton, IL this weekend, where I’ll read some selections, talk a bit about the …
Gee, where’s Dennis Kucinich?
Note to maverick presidential candidates, unannointed by the mainstream media: always stand in the middle at photo-ops. Who knows if …
Visit retro videogame heaven
If you like old-school video games, I mean really old-school, you have to visit this incredibly cool site. Pong Story …
Stroll through the DigiBarn
This is a fascinating site for anyone interested in computer history. In fact, I take that back. Anyone who has a …
Blows Against the Empire
A great article from Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, on the amazing writer and reluctant futurist, Philip K. Dick. Of …
Learn a lost art today
I’m a big advocate of self-sufficiency, and I’m worried sometimes that upcoming generations aren’t going to have any idea how to …
Ron Paul and ABC: This week’s update
A signed, notarized admission of anti-candidate bias would be no more convincing than this little video: If you’d like to …
Sad day
My father, Jack Henderson, Sr., passed away early this morning at the age of 86. In the course of a long, cruel illness, …
My first computer
Well, technically, I was a part-owner of a TRS-80 Model 1 in 1979. But the Timex/Sinclair TS1000 was the first …
MSM promotes Ron Paul from “unknown” to “sleeper”
How many elections have gone by since it was possible to look at a presidential candidate’s record, their entire record, …
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