Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Learning To Speak

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Last summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to present a series of lectures aboard the Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2 on behalf of Oxford U...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

More on How to Build a Catapult

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[Looking for more catapult building info? There is much information in this blog on how to build a catapult . Type "catapult" into...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Rocket Manual for Amateurs

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Back in 1960, U.S. Army Captain Bertrand Brinley published the Rocket Manual for Amateurs , one of the greatest DIY books ever written. Its ...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The York Pennsyvania Cabin Fever Expo

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Speaking of people with high cylinder indexes, (see previous post, below) I recently returned from an event in York Pennsylvania called the ...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

What's your Cylinder Index?

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My ex-relative of mine (I'll call him "Joe") lives way, way out in the hinterlands on 80 acres of hilly woods and wooded hills...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Mark, My Editor at Make to be on the Colbert Report

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My editor (and friend) at Make Magazine tells me that he'll be on the Colbert Report Comedy Central on Tuesday, March 6. Mark Frauenfeld...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Make Magazine #9 out now. Includes Bullwhip!

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My apologies for the lack of posts lately. I'll try to rectify that. I've also changed some programming things so the RSS feed to th...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Lucky Saddam

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Hanging, Beheading, Dichotomy, and Worse: The Most Macabre Brainstorming Session Ever The grainy Internet video of Saddam Hussein’s exec...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Management Fads -- A Quiz for Business Fashionistas

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I received an MBA from the University of Minnesota more than 20 years ago. It never did much for me career wise, since I was more of a scien...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Ballistic Missile Launches 2006

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Evidently, a fair amount of research continues into rocket science. Last year eight countries test fired ballistic missiles. According to t...