I wouldn’t fault you for imagining the guys and gals on the editorial board sitting around a conference table in a smoke filled room. Sight reading press releases from around the world, chewing on two day old pizza, and fighting for their own picks for the week’s top stories. You’d think they’d scrutinize minutiae during...
First, I want to tell you…I didn’t want to write this article, but El Jefe said the subject matter is culturally influential. Like most GenXers I spent most of my formative years ripping and running, and generally getting up to no good. When I needed babysitting Cartoon Express and video games were stand-ins totally approved...
Yesterday, Nintendo and SONY announced plans to bring Shigeru Miyamoto’s masterpiece, The Legend of Zelda, to the Big Screen. Miyamoto and Avi Arad, who produced the latest round of Spider-Men, will produce the movie. Wes Ball, director of The Maze Runner, has been signed to direct. The movie will probably take as much time to...
Ever since I watched Ronnie Bell drive one in the NE Heartbreak video, I’ve wanted a scooter. Cruising through sunny locales on two small wheels equals freedom, my friend. Mopeds and motor scooters help urbanites break free of gridlock while exploring everything a city has to offer. Every generation becomes infatuated with the scooter. Even...
In what’s not a joke; Meta, also known as Facebook which owns Instagram, announced plans to offer an ad-free subscription experience for its European users. Users can pay €9.99 for an ad-free Facebook timeline. The subscription service will be available to users over 18, and only to those in the European Union. UK users are exempt...
At the time of this writing, 41 states have joined in a federal law suit against Meta the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The states claim Meta and its application organizations have mislead the public regarding the harmful effects of social media on mental health. In response, Meta said it was, “disappointed,” about...
I know you get sick of us covering Elon Musk but he makes a lot of news. He continues to make news even as his social network struggles to keep users while servicing billions in debt. As Elon Musk picked Twitter fights with Wikipedia, an extraordinarily useful Internet property, banks were struggling to unload Twitter...
When El Jefe slid me yet another story on AI I started to huff and puff. But, when I saw the purpose of AI was a good one, I was delighted. University of Nebraska student, Luke Farritor, joined a worldwide competition to translate ancient Roman scrolls which were once lost in the cataclysmic aftermath of...
For decades, NASA’s spacesuits have lagged behind the stylish and technologically cool spacesuits of movies and fiction. Astronauts’ first suits looked like they were made of tin foil. The Space Shuttle era saw a massive redesign that added a large amount of bulk to the suit. Needless to say, they weren’t stylish. But if I...
The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.” Neil deGrasse Tyson Look out when science is sciencing. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned to Earth less than two weeks ago. The mission crashed into an asteroid, collected a sample of asteroid dirt, and brought the...