Susie and I are in KC for Memorial Day, tomorrow to South Missouri to visit the family graveyard, then hopefully a couple of days in a tent away from the internet. We probably won’t be updating until Tuesday. I am in terrible need of a little R&R.
When I get back, I’d like to talk about […]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Traditional bows; coffee machines; mascots; hammocks.
• 6PM, Science Channel - How It’s Made: Fiberglass boats; clothes dryers; gum; fireworks.
• 6PM, Discovery HD - Equator: Rivers of the Sun. Fish living in the Amazon River struggle through drought for six months.
• 6PM, History […]

Popular Mechanics has a short, fact-filled piece on “Very Light Jets,” or VLCs, a new class of consumer jets that are not only small—two pilots, three to four passengers—but inexpensive, at least compared to current entry-level jets. (Prices are around one to three million.) They new class of jets, which some are betting will spur […]

I’ve already stated how much I’m looking forward to Knocked Up, but this NSFW clip describing how Ang Lee should have filmed the sex scenes in Brokeback Mountain makes me ravenous to know how good the stuff they left in will be.

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Fresh-cut flowers; adhesive tape; tofu; lottery tickets.
• 6PM, Science Channel - Science of the Deep: Medicine From the Sea. Marine scientists search for plants and microorganisms that may provide new ways to boost our immune systems.
• 6PM, PBS (NY 13) - BBC World […]

Enjoy, as I have, this tale of the creation of the “Gurney Flap,” a small piece of metal—usually aluminum—that is bolted on to sports cars’ wings to provide downforce. It is a solution that is both effective and cheap, rare in the world of aerodynamics. The Gurney Flap was invented on the race track by […]

Good and bad news from this opinion column at SFGate.com: GM is probably killing the Hummer H2, the comically pathetic “military-inspired” SUV that is simple a big GM truck with a fancy shell, built on the same platform as the Chevy Tahoe and the GMC Yukon. It seems sales are down enough to axe the […]

This looks like a heck of a screw, right? How much you pay for this, huh? How about $82. No, no, no, my friend, this screw is special. It come a from Sony.
As Sam at the linked site (which has the full scan of the invoice) notes, this must be the screw that adds the […]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Plastic cups and cutlery; special effects makeup; gold; harps.
• 6PM, Travel Channel - Getting Rich in Vegas: Being a profitable low roller.
• 6PM, Discovery Health - Code Blue: Witching Hour. Shooting victim; crash victim; child spills hot soup on himself.
• 6PM, Science […]

There’s only two things in life I like fucking and only one magazine has them both: Girls and Corpses, the apparently long-running magazine that features sexy pin-ups posed next to even sexier decaying flesh. Bookgasm explains:
Straddling that fine, fine, fine line between brutal tastelessness and hilarious misogyny, Girls and Corpses is very much a throwback […]

eXile’s War Nerd wrote a fascinating column about Count Carl Gustav von Rosen, a Swedish aristocrat that led a flight of hand-painted Cessnas into battle against MiG-17—okay, the jets were on the ground—and other military targets in the Biafra conflict in Nigeria.
Von Rosen specialized in noble lost causes. Way back in 1938, when he was […]

I’m sure these images of a UFO are fake, since everyone knows that aliens only ride Space Harleys, but I thought the designs were actually really interesting. Some of questioning whether or not this UFO could be a military drone; if that’s the case, it’s got a heck of a nice hover design using a […]