The “Shoppie Awards”
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Our email in-boxes have all been touched by them. Some are so blatently obvious that we must wonder at the gullability of the ones who earnestly forwarded them to us. Sporting subject titles such as “Really Amazing Pictures” and “Winner of the National Geographic Picture of the Year Award”, these images have long circulated in cyberspace without receiving […]
The Sci-Fi Movie Plotinator
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Mad Libs meets the Sci Fi Movie Channel.
As I first mentioned in my post titled Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips, My 10-year-old Science Junkie and I are huge science fiction movie fans. We love to make a game of figuring out which characters will die first and which will survive until the end. The Sci Fi Channel […]
Legos in Space!
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Two things we love; Legos and Astronauts - what could be better?!
See “Adventures of Lego Spacemen” at Joe Braun Photography. Great Pictures!
They promised us flying cars!
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I really thought they’d be here by now but alas, flying cars are still a future dream.
Here are a few nifty examples of the flying car as it has been imagined by various different people…
See what Glen Hiemstra from futurist.com has to say about the current status of the flying car. If memory serves me correctly, my brother actually […]
Yesterday’s Highway of Tomorrow
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Here is a sampling of Walt Disney’s vision of what transportation in the future might look like. This clip is excerpted from a 1958 “Disneyland” TV Show episode entitled “Magic Highway USA”.
Although most of the innovations imagined here have not come to pass, it’s interesting to see that some have! Note the navigation system and rear […]
Dubai is Tomorrowland!
Monday, April 28th, 2008I believe that if Walt Disney had lived to see the amazing land development projects currently taking form in Dubai, he would have declared that his vision of tomorrowland had come to pass.
Take a look at some of these concept drawings of actual buildings and projects. Some have already been completed. Others are still in […]
Shake Rattle & Roll
Monday, April 21st, 2008In the predawn hours of this last Friday Morning (4/18/08) I awoke in confusion. At first I thought I had overloaded the washing machine and imagined that the unbalanced spin cycle was causing the house to vibrate. As I began to shake off sleep I remembered that I hadn’t turned on the washing machine - […]
Animal Life Spans
Thursday, April 17th, 2008This last weekend I took my daughter to a Girl Scout event where we learned about various scaly, furry and feathery denizens of the rain forest. We both learned quite a bit about these animals including the fact that several varieties of parrots can live to more than 85 years of age! This got me […]
Take the Underworld Challenge
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008The British Museum maintains a nice interactive web site all about ancient Egypt and the mummification process. To take the “Underworld Challenge” & see if you are clever enough to collect the rewards awaiting you in the afterlife CLICK HERE
To see some very cool optical illusions CLICK HERE
The Amazing Fact Generator
Monday, April 14th, 2008Happy Monday!
In the interest of learning something new every day, you might want to check out the Amazing Fact Generator on mentalfloss.com.
The fact generator is a great source for finding facts that are accurate.
We’ve read many NOT-SO-TRUE scientific ”facts” that many people insist on passing on as truth. To make sure you’re NOT one of those people read Scientific […]
