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Eeyore's birthday party: all the freedom you can shake a stick at
Changing the world is hard. You don't do it by going shopping.
We salute the classic radio work of Arch Oboler.
My predictions for 2008, such as they are.
Three Old Time Radio shows that are worth listening to today
What essays attract hits here? Well, it's an amazingly mixed bag.
My predicitons about the Apple iPhone.
Even average people in the US are richer than King Soloman himself. Do we appreciate it? And what debts do we owe to it?
The Men From the Ministry was a radio program from the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s. It was very funny and a lot of fun.
An article from the 1955 New Yorker can tell us a lot about what's wrong with our media and politics today.
Dragnet was some of the best of the Golden Age of radio.
In the 1950's, GE promised us a push-button future. To give us an example of that world, they advertised a push-botton oven. After nearly sixty years, my grandmother still has one of these and I've photographed it.
Johnnie's Place was a fun place to hang out in the 1930's.
Being a kid was great in the 1960's, we had more freedom and fun than any kid has now.
If you don't like to listen to music while driving, what else is left?
One more installment of the Life Magazine, 1964 series.
One more installment of the Life Magazine, 1964 series.
Part two in a series based on a copy of Life Magazine from 1964.
Part three in the series about evens of 1964 as portrayed in Life Magazine.
Life Magazine shows us just what was going on back in 1964.
You never know what's going to drive traffic your way...
I've been programming Apple computers for over 20 years and, in that time, not a single journalist has ever really understood Apple, Inc.
Wylie spits in America's eye, but then turns on a dime.
Adventures of Superman: where are they now?
George Adamski was a remarkable man who laid the groundwork for generations of UFO nuts to come.
Hammet wrote the quintessential story of the hard boiled detective sent in to clean up a corrupt town. Kurosawa made it into a samaurai movie. Leone then made it into a cowboy movie. The litigation continues.
These days, the 1960's are remembered with nostalgia and fondness. If you really look back, however, you see that it wasn't really a fun decade.
Star Parker has some great ideas about the roots of poverty.
PETA has started a new campaign that is an attempt to make people quit eating fish because they are "intelligent animals with long-term memories who can use tools and even build structures".
