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 [...]
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 [...]
Forty years ago, the first men walked on the surface of the moon. Interestingly, they used a low-tech solution to repair the lunar lander so they could blast off. The TimesOnline has the story: There in the dust on the floor on the right side of the cabin, lay a circuit breaker switch that had [...]
Happy Independence Day! Independence Day the movie was enjoyable enough, but my favorite patriotic movie for the occasion is The Crossing starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington. I have an old VHS tape of the The Crossing taped off A&E back when I was living in a condo with cable. The Crossing is available from [...]
My good friend Mike R. is a Civil War buff. He loaned me a book entitled Ranger Mosby by Virgil Carrington Jones. I finished the book this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ranger Mosby tells the story of John S. Mosby beginning with his life at the University of Virginia before the Civil War [...]