Friday, August 21, 2009

How to Choose a Throwing Knife

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In my other blog Absinthe and Flamethrowers, I answer a question a reader posed about how to buy throwing knives. I was just wondering which...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Speed Week at Bonneville Salt Flats

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The Bonneville Salt Flats - A whole lot of flatness! I'm guest blogging on Makezine.com this month. I'm excited for the opportunity ...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

How to Make a Sazerac Cocktail

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In 2008 the Louisiana House of Represenatives voted to make the Sazerac the official cocktail of New Orleans. It’s a great mix of flavors an...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

How to Make an Arc Light

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Home Made Arc Light Most people think Thomas Edison invented the electric light. Nah. Edison invented the incandescent light bulb, but elec...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A new television gig

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I've been itching to get back on the small screen now that I've had a taste of it when I was doing Make TV. I'm getting that scr...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Interview Today on WHYY Philadelphia

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Today, I'm being interviewed on WHYY- Philadelphia's NPR Affiliate: Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane is an intelligent talk show de...

I was on NPR's Science Friday

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The 4th of July is the time when people really start thinking about the things that go whoosh boom and splat, so Absinthe and Flamethrowers ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Jatropha Seeds - a promising biofuel?

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I'm asking my brother Steve, the expert gardener to experiment with some jatropha seeds that I found on Amazon. They're pretty che...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

New Absinthe and Flamethrower Website

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Sales of Absinthe and Flamethrowers remain brisk. As of this writing, it's one of the 300 most popular books sold on Amazon. I'm hum...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Here's Why Engineers Aren't Famous

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Back in the 1970’s, there were not many famous scientists or engineers, and now, there are almost none. If you disagree, try and name one, r...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Hey, I've Got a Monkey on My Back, or, Human - Animal Combat

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To some extent, fairs and amusements parks can trace their roots back to Roman Circuses. Although they incorporated bloodthirsty spectacle, ...
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Absinthe and Flamethrower Review in Today's New York Times

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People have good days and bad days. Today, I'm pleased to say, I am having a very good day.Forgive me for tooting my own horn, but how o...
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

The Mother of All Potato Cannons

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My friend Christian Ristow was at Maker Faire with his giant pneumatically powered sculpture called Hand of Man. It’s great. It’s a highly i...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

Now Blogging on BoingBoing

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It's been pretty spare here on Notes from the Technology Underground lately. That's because I've been posting on my friend Mark ...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Geek Dad Guest Blogging

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For the next two weeks I have the honor of guest blogging on Wired's Geekdad blog (www.geekdad.com) It's important to nurture the ne...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Exploring the trans-Saharan Gold Trade

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My archeologist son Andy leaves today on an expedition to a remote part of Ghana, on Africa's western coast. It's seems like it'...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Marvelous Work of Norman Saunders

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I met illustrator Zina Saunders at the GEL conference in New York City last week. Wildly creative and fairly edgy, she works have been in a ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

100 Geeks You Should Be Following

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GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com . Basically it is a group geeks who have reproduced biologically and now blog their experien...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

New York: I am a Camera

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I flew home from New York last night, and boy, are my arms tired. Seriously though, flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, it...
Friday, April 24, 2009

How to Give an Ignite Presentation

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What is an "Ignite Presentation" and how do you give it? Ignite talks are a style of presenting where people speak on a subject of...