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The results from last nights primaries in North Carolina and Indiana have given Sen. Barack Obama a decisive advantage over Sen. Hillary Clinton. Obama’s 14 point victory over Clinton in N.C., and the narrow loss in Ind. has given the…
Micro-Star International recently announced that it will be offering a motherboard with a Stirling engine-powered cooling fan for the northbridge. This device would reduce total electricity usage, and be a “more ECO-friendly design.” Yet, I’m not convinced that a Stirling…
There are three more weeks until the Pennsylvania primary, and many are becoming weary of the consistently negative and personality centered campaigning. Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama have both continued to focus on each other; and while we’ve heard plenty…
If you’ve every owned a dog that loves to play fetch, you know that it can sometimes feel like hours of ball tossing before your dog’s eagerness to run after the fuzzy yellow tennis ball runs out. Rather than wearing…
Many were hoping that March 4th would result in an obvious Democratic nominee. It was doubted Clinton would drop out, even if she lost every race that day, but now it seems the race for the Democratic nomination for President…
Everyone knows that leap years come once every 4 years. Unless the year is divisible by 100, then it’s skipped. Unless, of course, that year is also divisible by 400, then there is a leap day. (For example, 1600 and…
I nearly forgot about last night’s lunar eclipse, had it not been for a reminder phone call from Leah. The moon was a wonderful rust-brown color; and the eclipse, at the time of the photograph, was almost full. The photograph…
There’s a lot of ongoing debate over tomorrow’s tsunami-sized, 24-state primary vote. With all the regular blather coming from the 24 hour news commentary, the incessant positioning of political pundits, the numerous educated guesses being made by analysts on TV,…
Once again I’ve managed to take pictures of Christmas in Ohio. Well, mostly the Christmas tree anyway. There is also a picture of the fireplace, and one out the window of the airplane, where I could see a sort of…
It has snowed more in the past two weeks than it has for the past two winters, and it’s only December 20th. Having finished snowing this evening for the third time in 8 days, I decided to do some night…
Nanosolar recently announced the release of their ultra cheap solar panel, SolarPly. This is basically solar cells printed on aluminum. This “foil” is “non-fragile”, can be cut or bent to any shape, and doesn’t require soldering for electrical contact. While…
If you need something to pass the time today, check out the Web site Will It Blend.com. There you’ll see videos where Blendtec blenders are puts to the test. Exactly what kinds of things can you see blended? Marbles, magnets,…