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July 27, 2007
Nerd Joke
How hard could it be?...
Javascript and Kindergarten
I've done all sorts of programming. Back in the day, I started with DBase, then AppleBasic, then C. I moved through a bunch of stuff. I've written all kinds of cool, web 2.0, cutting-edge programs. Somewhere along the way, I...
July 26, 2007
DoD Manages to Stay Asleep
A year or so ago, I posted an article called "Transactional Warfare" which made the case that we are viewing the Global War on Terror in the wrong way. Recently the Pentagon funded a study that was so close, yet...
July 18, 2007
Ares 1 Won't Make it to the Moon
Ares I, also known as the Crew Launch Vehicle, the flagship of the new Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) is already maxing out weight requirements and is several metric tons short of taking anything useful to the moon. For the...
Iapetus: Old Moon has Some New Tricks
Looking for a place to live with a bit of history?Iapetus is older than any other moon in the solar system Iapetus is one strange moon. Part dark, part light, with a weird "wall" running down down the middle of...
July 14, 2007
Is There Anybody Out There?
In the left corner, weighing in at 180 pounds, Christopher HitchensGod has really been ticking people off lately. Seems like since The Enlightenment, every so often we go through spells where God just seems to get on everybody's nerves. The...
July 11, 2007
Is There Anything Real Anymore?
I was watching a preview for the movie "Surf's Up" a couple of months ago -- it's the animated story for kids of a penguin who travels to the tropics to become a professional surfer -- when something caught my...
July 10, 2007
Hooking up Inside a Stealth Plane
Sorry I've been so lame lately, but I've been working on forming a team for a new start-up. I am a serial inventor, and this time around I decided that instead of just a great product idea I was also...