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 [...]
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 have [...]
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 [...]