Janaury 9, 2013 RIP Huell Howser, lovable doofus, California voice. All his shows are archived by Chapman University so, finally, watching his Ridge Route tour which I could never find at the library. You can read my own notes of driving that road back in the archives, scroll down to October 25 2004. Photo here was somewhere along the way. December 31, 2012 So much for 2012 -- Happy New Year! December 15, 2012 In New Zealand, they're letting the dog drive (BBC video) Foreign Policy slideshow: Paris on the Yangtze About the Shifters of 1922 What I want for Christmas: a Light-up Monowheel, the cycling version of the motorized Monowheel, which seems to be a reality now, though I' ve never seen one. The McLean claims to be street-legal, powered by a V-8? More info at the misfortunate history of monowheels. Christmas GIFs -- Ho Ho Ho! December 8, 2012 Mentioned previously, Matt Novak's Paleofuture blog, and how he's doing an in-depth "Jetsons" review... but since he isn't rolling up any easy navigation, here's the story so far: Rosey Jet Screamer Space Car Astro Nite Out Scouts Flying Suit Rosey's BF Elroy's TV show Rage Grandpa November 18, 2012 Escaping the Rat Race with the "Cultured Youth" of China, a story that was reprinted in The Atlantic. Reaction to this article is calling these kids 'hipsters'... contrast with the formerly-urban Rusticated Youth of the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement. November 1, 2012 OAHU JACK Hawaiian papaya carved and illuminated for the season October 27, 2012 The End of the New World Order, an excerpt from a new book, The Revenge Of History by Seumas Milne. What is American Sauce? Everyone's passing around these 99 Life Hacks, kinda 'Hints for Heloise' but some good stuff there. October 13, 2012 "It's ... brought excitement into the city" (of Winnipeg). Fire tornadoes Soviet Union photos (huge flickr set)) and My father's color images of southern California in the 1940s September 29, 2012 In Smithsonian cyberspace you can find a blog by Matt Novak called Paleofuture, "a history of the future that never was." Recently, an article about Googie architecture and now, on the occasion of their 50th anniversary, he's reviewing every episode of The Jetsons (TOS). Meanwhile, Smithsonian magazine has changed slightly, for the worse, beginning several months ago -- hard to describe what's different. Got to talking about this with the clerk in the shop of their Postal Museum and she said it's 'cause it got a new editor. September 15, 2012 Motorola future ads at the ever-fascinating Retronaut. Also, David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' as a picture book (scroll up to next May for a working link, at Wired). Der Spiegel interviews the owner of the new Hitler store in India. New Gibson interview in Wired parts 1   2   3 Slideshow -- Quiet at the Back. Photos of classrooms around the world. In addition to their silver wings turning gold, when the sims were over and shuttle astronauts finally flew, they received the Mach 25 patch. August 28, 2012 Summer ending so soon? Hope you got to go somewhere, have a vacation. Myself, back to DC, with Charlottesville, but no beach. August 16, 2012 The end of August, when everything slows down. July 4th, 2012 The world's new superhero -- Captain China Kandinsky, ordered by museum Vintage Children's Books my Kid Loves June 15, 2012 Good grief, Summer already? May 4, 2012 They're finding their way to my WET pages since Salon reprinted Imprint's WET, Revisited. April 28, 2012 In the Washington Post "Opinion" section, Let's just say it: the Republicans are the problem. April 9, 2012 In der Spiegel, a sequence of photos comparing East Germany, Then and Now. February 26, 2012 The cherry trees are flowering in Silicon Valley, and it's not even March! And this is the dryest Californian winter I've ever experienced. January 22, 2012 O, Happy Day -- the annoying neighbors next door just moved out!
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