Train Tuesdays
Here’s the clip from the classic movie Stand By Me. According to a Trainorders.com discussion, the scene was filmed on the McCould River Railroad.
The complete classic movie is available on DVD from Amazon.com:
Train Tuesdays
Vice President of the United States
VP Biden wrote an editorial entitled Why America Needs Trains:
In 1830, the first steam-engine locomotive, the Tom Thumb, graced America’s railways. Its first run was a rickety 13-mile trek from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills, Md., but it became much more than that. It marked the beginning of a new [...]
DC101’s Elliot in the Morning show had a couple interesting topics this Thursday. First, they talked about a good example of what is wrong with this country: Stupid Homeowners Association Tries To Force 90 Year Old Veteran to Remove Flagpole
Another interesting topic on Elliot in the Morning was a discussion about mixtapes… [...]
I wrote an earlier piece entitled Print Is Not Dead on this blog. However, stories about newspapers going bankrupt continue to come out. Print may not be dead, but it certainly does not appear healthy.
Now, Rory Maher of Business Insider writes:
Add Reader’s Digest to the long list of traditional media companies struggling to climb their [...]
Update 07/29/2009:
Thank you Jon for submitting the following story with the ominous subject “It begins.”
Sweden’s Local News in English reports:
A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm…
“I’ve never heard of a robot attacking somebody [...]
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