NEWLY DISCOVERED VIDEO: Ronald Reagan and James Dean, together.
Archive for 2010
April 20, 2010
HP’S 3D PRINTER HITS THE MARKET. “The Designjet 3D is based on Stratasys’s Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology, which turns three-dimensional CAD drawings into tangible prototypes by extruding partially molten ABS plastic in extremely fine layers one atop the other, forming the entire 3-D model in a single piece from the ground up. Designjet 3D will print in ivory-colored plastic only while Designjet Color 3D will print single-color parts in up to eight different colors (we’re not sure why you can’t just put a different hue of ABS plastic in the Designjet 3D).”
WHEN THINGS ARE ROTTEN: Volcanic ash chaos ‘a lesson for Europe.’ “Europe’s ash cloud has triggered a flurry of anguished calls for the EU to improve its crisis response and co-ordination, as countries struggle to help thousands of stranded passengers.”
5 EASY, AWESOME photo tricks.
DEBUNKING MYTHS about telecommuting.
MICHAEL SILENCE takes the Nashville Tennessean to task for prejudice, stereotypes, and distortion. And yet, he barely scratches the surface on this dreadful piece of choreographed political agitprop.
E-BOOKS AND the future of print.
DID MCCAIN FLIP ON IMMIGRATION, or did immigration flip on McCain? “As someone who has lived in Tucson, AZ since 1972, I don’t think you all back east understand how much things have changed down here in the last few years.”
QUANTUM BROADBAND becomes a reality.
What’s next, quantum money?
“WHY I GIVE MY 9-YEAR-OLD SON POT.”
ROAD TRIP ADVICE for electric-car owners.
TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): Tax Court Rejects “Geithner Defense,” Says Reliance on TurboTax Does Not Excuse Taxpayer From Penalty for Errors on Tax Return.
IN THE MAIL: Chris Horner’s Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America.
PAUL MIRENGOFF: Goodwin Liu flunks the mainstream test, Part Two.
I SAY, REPLACE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS with this creepy, disembodied robot mouth.
BYRON YORK: What’s behind the anti-Tea Party hate narrative? “While the level of frustration is indeed a threat, it is a political threat. Ask Democrats running in this November’s elections.”
Plus, Lessons from the English monarchy. “Clinton’s argument that criticism of government by peaceful citizens participating in Tea Party demonstrations leads to domestic terrorism like the Oklahoma City bombing really is nothing new. Monarchs and others in government have been using that line to silence their critics for hundreds of years.”
THIS IS COOL: A living lung donor is running in today’s Boston Marathon. Now yesterday’s, but still cool.
DEFENDING PRESIDENT OBAMA against charges of excessive golfing.
YOU MEAN THOSE LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE WERE REAL? Survey: Librarians get frisky in stacks. “A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks.”
SO WHERE’S THE RECOVERY? Not showing up in these tax withholding data.
MORE ON THE NEW CLIMATE OF FEAR IN AMERICA: DEM DONOR Arrested for Threatening to Murder GOP Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite …Media Silent.
“MY BODY, MY CHOICE:” Unless, you know, you want a C-section.
HOTLINE: Falling Trust In Government Threatens Dems.
UPDATE: Related thoughts from Radley Balko.