Archive: May 12, 2008

In 1958, a TV series called “Disneyland” aired an episode called Magic Highway USA that took a look at some of the exciting new advances to come in modern transportation. I, of course, wasn’t alive then to watch the show, but seeing the video now makes me realize how forward-thinking Walt Disney and his friends [...]

china-earthquake

There was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in China yesterday. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Sichuan. My parents are currently in China, presumably in Guangdong. They were supposed to fly out yesterday to Hong Kong. I haven’t heard from them since I heard news of the quake, but I hope they’re ok and already [...]

misspelled

Why is there a label on the outside of this Hudsons Coffee bag? Click inside to find out!

powerset

For a long time now, I’ve been fed up with the search function on Wikipedia. It isn’t very good for finding a variety of information that is relevant to your query, and it also doesn’t search for similar spellings of queries when/if you spell something wrong. There have been search engines dedicated to searching Wikipedia [...]

automatic-upgrade-plugin

Wow, this was nice and easy! I only had to push one link and it was all downloaded, unpacked, installed, and upgraded for me automatically!

If you aren’t following Jesus People, then you should start now. The show is a very funny internet video series about the formation of a Christian musical act. It is shot in the style of a mockumentary (like The Office).