Here’s an old clip of Ron Paul on The Morton Downey Jr. Right-Wingnut Show (Anyone remember that blowhard?) discussing the idiotic drug war, and this was 20 years, billions of dollars, and millions of incarcerations ago.
Maybe a little cruel making fun of Chubby at the end, but his point is valid.

Over on the Scientific American website they have a cool little application that allows you to use a slider bar to zoom into the future, from 2 days, to 1 billion years, to show what will happen in New York City (and to a greater extent the Earth), simulating what would happen if people disapeared, […]

How quaint and simple May 1st 2003 seems now, remember the good ole days?
Bush was playing fighter pilot, the Mission was accomplished, and just down the road we had purple thumbs and 4 years of “Stay the course” to look forward too.

 
(1983 photo of Donald Rumsfeld & U.S. Ally Saddam Hussein having a friendly handshake close to one year after the 148 shiites were killed in 1982)
From MSNBC.COM:
Saddam Hussein executed before dawn
Deposed Iraqi dictator is hanged for deaths of 148 Shiites in 1982
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to […]

Watching this brings back memories of playing Intellivision Basketball with my brother, and going to the arcade in High School.
Anyone remember when the movie Tron came out? We used to think “Wow… some day computer graphics will look like that!” and now it all looks so hokey.

From Seattle PI: 
Going for a blast into the real past
If the experiment works, a signal could be received before it’s sent
If his experiment with splitting photons actually works, says University of Washington physicist John Cramer, the next step will be to test for quantum “retrocausality.”
That’s science talk for saying he hopes to find evidence of a […]

Yahoo is doing an interesting project for the next month, a virtural online Time Capsule.  Want to leave a piece of history for future internet travelers? check it out.

Nope not an anti-smoking commercial.
I mean… A smoking commercial for Winstons Ciggy Stankers.
It shows you how much our culture has changed in 50 years, Imagine Homer Simpson doing a commercial for Marlboro today.

 
Sometime in the middle of October of this year, someone, either a baby being born, or an immigrant coming to America will push the total population of the United States to 300 million for the first time.
I thought it might be interesting to take a deeper look into some historic population numbers with data from […]

 
Snow Crash is right around the corner.
‘Mind over matter’ no longer science fiction
Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with a couple dozen electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message — letter by letter — on […]

 
After last weeks analysis of minimum wages .vs. congressional wages, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at a similar economic topic, especially one that’s on the minds of a lot of other X-Generation folks out there like myself.  
Buying a home
Everyone wants to buy a home, its part of the American dream.  […]

 
From CNN Yesterday (5-22-2006)…
Bush: “…we have now reached a TURNING POINT in the struggle between freedom and terror…”
Hmmm….  Seems to me I’ve heard this “Turning Point” phrase somewhere before….
11-06-2003 Bush:: “We’ve reached another great turning point – and the resolve we show will shape the next stage of the world democratic movement.
03-19-2004 Bush:…”Today, as Iraqis join the […]

From Startrek.com:
First Contact Day is celebrated throughout the United Federation of Planets to commemorate the first official contact between humans and an extraterrestrial race which took place on April 5th, 2063. On that day, Zefram Cochrane successfully tested his warp drive engine and the resulting warp signature attracted the attention of a nearby Vulcan starship […]