Sci-fi and tech site IO9.com reports that Popular Science Magazine is now making its archives available online dating back to 1872. The archives can be searched either at the magazine’s website or via Google Books. In the archive, I was able to quickly find articles of historical interest, each showing a technological prediction that didn’t […]
As one description of this YouTube video suggests, those of us under 40 may not remember a world where book reports, term papers, and essays were written on typewriters. But I do. My Bar Mitzvah gift was a typewriter, a Smith Corona with a removable ribbon. At that time, removable ribbons were a great innovation. […]
RIP Doug Fieger, leader of 70s pop band The Knack, who died of cancer. The Knack wrote classic power pop tunes combining a gritty edge with a Beatlesque gloss, including classics My Sharona and Good Girls Don’t. Like many teens learning to play guitar in the 70s, I spent far too many hours torturing my parents and […]
