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The Water Pod
This is really cool. The Water Pod is a barge floating around New York City where a handful of artists work and live completely autonomously. That is, they filter their own water, grow their own food, and barter for anything else they might need with services or other goods. The residents of the Water Pod [...]
What’s Killing the News
The news is dying. Have you heard? A slow, innocuous-wound-looking-yet-still-fatal kind of death. The kind of death where you think the bullet only glanced through meaningless cartilage yet really severed a key artery kind of death. That’s a poetic way of saying: NEWS! You’re really going to die. No suture is going to save you. [...]
How to Fillet a Rabbit with Josh Emett
I get to meet all kinds of interesting people and do all kinds of interesting things in my line of work, and this week was no exception. This week, I got to hang with the one and only Josh Emett, who’s basically Gordon Ramsay’s right-hand man in the kitchen. The man can cook. He also [...]
Vauban: A Carless Society
There are so many things wrong with cars, let’s face it. Environmentally, socially, economically, all of it – all downsides when it comes to cars. I mean, I get that they are cool examples of what mankind can make. And I do appreciate that. But just as like, one-off examples, not as something that a [...]
Swine Flu: Should We Be Scared? (Hint: No.)
This week, the whole world went kosher, avoiding bacon and ham like it was the plague! Because the mass media basically told them it was! Here’s the skinny on swine flu so far – very few people have died, most infected people recover as you would from a FLU, and occurrences have been few and [...]
Auto Show to Climate Crisis: Whatevs
I went to check out this year’s Auto Show at the Javits Center, and I didn’t really know what to expect. I’ve gone in previous years to check out the splashy booths, million-dollar concept cars, and other general monuments to consumerism. This year, though, with the economy going to the crapper and the ridiculous sums [...]
The Future of Broadband
I attended VideoNuze’s Broadband Video Leadership Evening to find out what some high-powered executives in the entertainment industry make of broadband video, and I have to say it wasn’t as dull as all that sounds. It does help that I’m hopelessly geeky, of course, but really – I saw some cool people in the audience [...]
Comic Con
So, this year I visited Comic Con for a little grassroots news coverage. Hm. Let’s see. Lots of people dressed up in funny outfits, geeking out on video games, comic books, and lots of tech stuff. And me, unleashed on them. It’s a win-win right there, folks! So I donned my Super Resident costume, grabbed [...]
Come Tour the Intrepid With Me!
This week, I went to visit another miracle on the Hudson, The Intrepid Museum of Sea, Air, and Space. Opened in 1982, the Museum is centered on the aircraft carrier Intrepid (CVS-11), one of the most successful ships in US history, and now a national historic landmark. In 1943, Intrepid was commissioned and served proudly [...]