Thanks to the campaign finance laws, political groups are now busy filling FCC complaints at any sign of partisan behavior by the media. According to them, speech is only free when its non-commercial, non-political, and anti-hate. Political stances are a right reserved for politicians, it seems. All thanks to John McCain, a corrupt [...]
My comments have been fixed. Thanks to everyone who emailed me to let me know. See, I didn’t ignore your emails – it just took me a month or three to get around to acting on them.
Pratt & Whitney has developed a revolutionary design for a thermal nuclear rocket a practical design rapid deep-space exploration suitable, for example, for a human expedition for Mars. But dont expect NASA to be flying nuclear powered rockets anytime soon NASA is a political creature, and environmentalist paranoia is likely to keep [...]
They sent 10 pages of single-spaced specifications. The hero was a Hispanic boy. There were black twins, one boy, one girl; an overweight Oriental boy; and an American Indian girl. That leaves the Caucasian. Since we mustn’t forget the physically handicapped, she was born with a congenital malformation and only had three fingers on one [...]
Faced with too may admirer of their furniture (myself included) IKEA has created their own hate site. Their “villain” is a rather amusing example of bad philosophy
Two cool new tools from Google: a desktop Gmail notifier and Google Desktop, a free search solution for Windows. Wow, the wonders never cease.
Socialists would have you believe that government safety regulations lead to higher safety standards than a free market would provide. The reality however, is that the agencies responsible for product safety are quickly captured by the parties they are intended to regulate and then used to socialize costs and restrict competition. Regulating safety [...]
A kid is going around an inner city school cafeteria collecting scraps of food from various plates. He then goes outside and gives the food to a bum. Prompt: What do you want to be? Next shot: the kid is dispensing food for an international aid agency.
What agency is this? The [...]
SpaceShipOne wins the X-Prize! Virgin Galactic, here I come! (Photos)
While surfing the HowStuffWorks website, I discovered that my wireless router, the Linksys WRT54G runs Linux, and is therefore very hackable. I proceeded to find a firmware update that gave me shell access and installed a bunch of tweaks – such as the ability to boost the signal 900%, function as a range [...]