For those of you that enjoy MythBusters on cable television, there is an article in Robot magazine, which describes their recent experience using Radio Shack’s new VEX Robotics Design System… this looks like a step-up for those of us that have
Month: March 2006
Europe .vs. USA & Israel
Jame Taranto, at the Wall Street Journal, is one of my favorite pseudo-bloggers. He recently shared his opinion about European feelings of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism… This led us to muse that the close U.S. relationship with Israel has a psychological
Baseball Humor
This one is courtesy of Sam Greenwood… This is a detective story… So Pay Close Attention!!! Three elderly ladies are excited about seeing their first baseball game. They smuggle a bottle of Jack Daniels into the ball park. The
Say It Ain’t So, Barry
Tarvar is on a roll… I love The Onion, the satirical online newspaper. It’s funny, witty, and well written. More than anything, I love how they use satire to report the truth… for example, Barry Bonds. The gist of this
Sudden Jihad Syndrome
Daniel Pipes writes in FrontPage Magazine about what he refers to as Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Pipes suggests that any good Moslem might someday decide the time has come for Jihad and swerve an SUV into a bunch of pedestrians “…[he] represents
Black, White… Cheap, Shallow
Another great commentary from John Tarvardian… For the past several months, the cable channel FX has been running promos for a new show “Black. White.” It’s about two families — one black and one white — who volunteered to trade
Defective Anti-Virus Software… Deletes Wrong Files
It sounds like everyone’s computer nightmare… Anti-virus software (from McAfee) incorrectly flags hundreds of legitimate software programs as a virus. The virus definition update was shipped on March 10 with definitions for a wide range of new malware threats, but when
Why are so Many Jews Democrats?
This recent editorial by Dennis Prager does a nice job of addressing the reasons why so many Jews are overwhelmingly liberal…
Council on American-Islamic Relations
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Washington, is perhaps the best-known “advocate for Moslems’ civil rights”. A spokesman for CAIR said, “We are similar to a Moslem NAACP…” (Should the public view that favorably?). In reality, CAIR is
US Navy Phasing Out the F-14
The airplane made famous in the Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun“, is nearing retirement. The US Navy is phasing out the F-14 Tomcat (see photo below) by the end of 2006 in favor of the F-18 multi-role fighter.