[caption id="attachment_3070" align="alignright" width="96" caption="Link opens in iTunes"] [/caption] Can this be the most technologically inclined administration in history? Yesterday, on the heels of Barack Obama delivering his first *real* tweet (sorry boys and...

The first patent for an electric motor went to Hungarian inventor Ányos Jedlik in 1828. Jedlik created a model for a vehicle that would run on his electric motor, but it was never mass produced. In 1900, 38 percent of the vehicles in the U.S. were powered by electricity...

Over at A Blog About History, there's a youtube video up showcasing the last 100 years of special effects. I watched it, and was pretty amazed at how far the movie industry has come at faking it. I was disappointed, though when I didn't see the infamous Batman shark attack...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein I'm not what you would call an avid reader. To be sure, I read magazines...

I've never used Windows Messenger outside a corporate environment in tandem with Microsoft Exchange, but a milestone's a milestone, right? If you actually use Windows Messenger for your IM needs, head on over to the Microsoft commemoration page to get your free gift...

Though it may have come to the forefront in recent years with the growth of online universities and colleges, distance learning has been in existence since the early 1900’s and perhaps before then through mail-based correspondence courses. Even then, distance education...

This is the last of a two-part series.  Click here for part one. Many products are so ubiquitous that we don’t even try to think of where their name originated, but as the tagline says, “haven’t you ever wondered?”  In this part, I'll show you an ironic name, a name with...

Many products are so ubiquitous that we don't even try to think of where their name originated, but as the tagline says, "haven't you ever wondered?"  In the old days, product names were obvious as they were either named after the person who invented it, such as the Tesla...

I figured I would explain to new readers why I chose the links that are on the main page.  I'll also post this in the about page for future reference.  I'm not going to place links to them because I'm lazy, and the links are in the sidebar to the right. ^_^ BBC Documentaries...