Rants and Raves Sep 19, 2009
That's funny, because if you compare the graphic USA Today did to estimate crowd size at the last inauguration with traffic cam shots of the crowd Sept. 12, the crowd extends well beyond the beyond the 1 million point. TO THE PERSON who thinks we should change laws about kids' car seats being in the back: Are you kidding me. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Innovation: As With Moon Landings, So With Medicine Aug 7, 2009
It matched a determination to make the Apollo program succeed no matter what - to venture beyond the beyond, behind the night (as World War I British poet Rupert Brooke wrote) to "some white tremendous daybreak.". Then public and governmental interest in space flagged, Congress underfunded manned-space initiatives - and today we marvel at the Apollo achievement of 40 years ago rather than at an exponentially advanced manned-space program, leaping like giants, that Apollo began. (Townhall.com)
Prophet and loss Mar 14, 2009
" Sterling says he is still as able to project 1,000 years into the future as he is the next handful of years. He says his most satisfying area of output currently is his blog, Beyond the Beyond, for Wired magazine. "I like throwing ideas and making things thinkable that were not thinkable," he explains. "I am a slightly entertaining, cranky fringe figure. " Old iron One of the recurring themes of Sterling's blog is obsolete media. It is a thread in his novels too: In one scene of Islands in the... (BBC News -- Technology)
