December 10, 2012 0 Remember All Those AOL CDs? There Were More Than You Think In July 1993, America Online (now AOL) embarked on an aggressive direct marketing campaign in order to become [...]
December 7, 2012 0 Destined to Dunk A typical door opening is about 6’8″ (2.03 meters) high. And if you’re an American who is [...]
December 6, 2012 0 Painting in Dots and Dashes Necessity is the mother of invention, or so the (historically difficult to attribute) saying goes. In one [...]
December 5, 2012 0 Kneedless Surgery If you’re feeling sharp aches or a burning sensation in your knees or other joints, you maybe suffering [...]
December 4, 2012 0 Tall and Unseen The map pictured above was generated from Wikipedia data. (Here’s a much larger version, and [...]
December 3, 2012 0 Swing Vote In 2008, Kevin Costner produced and starred in a movie titled Swing Vote. In the movie, Costner plays a New [...]
November 30, 2012 0 Yam Land The Trobriand Islands are an archipelago, part of Papua New Guinea, about 100 miles northeast of Oceania, [...]
November 29, 2012 0 A Million Years, Give or Take Samuel Pierpont Langley, pictured above, is not a household name, but, if history meandered a little [...]
November 28, 2012 0 Off the Hook Over the last decade or so, cell phones have become as important to our everyday lives as any other object. [...]
November 27, 2012 0 Leaning Out Pictured above is the Elizabeth Tower, home of the famous clock bell, Big Ben. On the left, the angle of the [...]