MajRoj's Sidebar

The backstory: the developers of WebTV consoles south of San Francisco were told that they could not export WebTV's because their software made them subject to regulations as munitions. So, what do the wonky WebTV guys do but run out (or fire up their WebTV console, register the name... Sign in to see full entry.

http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/ Sign in to see full entry.

http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/secondlife.html Sign in to see full entry.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2099445.ece Something I have noticed of late...many artists I have respected and/or enjoyed had polio as kids. Part of this is their age group, but then again, many of their cohorts did not experience a clinicaly obvious... Sign in to see full entry.

It was a science and entertainment website overwhelmed with what seemed to be little kids or drunk slackers asking questions similar to those on Mythbusters. I took the dive and entered the Great Debate...not the one about Perpetual Motion/Free Energy (by the way, I bought one and just have to get... Sign in to see full entry.

National Public Radio (American, that is) has a site there now, who knows who else does? I've chatted with one of our number there, anyone else have an avatar? (Guess I'll have to go look for my old avatar!). If you are and you want to interact there, email me your avatar's name through Blogit and... Sign in to see full entry.

"It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax,... Sign in to see full entry.

When you find yourself short a dime, nickle or quarter for a soda or a pay phone call, go to a vending machine with a little open space under it and look. This is best done with a smll flashlight. Tell people you dropped your change and it rolled under. I fumbled a quarter once, it rolled under, and... Sign in to see full entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_physics The URL is self-explainatory. Sign in to see full entry.

While it is always good to be safe, it can be better sometimes when "safe" is balanced with "real". As in, "Get real". For a person with an intolerance for certain chemicals, foods, etc., it isn't a matter for debate or lightheartedness. But sometimes...some-times... Mother throwing a fit because... Sign in to see full entry.