Google Phone is Almost Here!

The first mobile phone powered by Google was launched last week, ready to do battle with Apple’s iPhone for the top spot on many people’s Christmas gift list.   The long-awaited smart phone, the T-Mobile G1, which was unveiled at a press conference in New York, will go on sale in the US next month (Oct [...]

Provision Theater’s World Premier

If it is starting to cool outside and football is in full swing, then it must be theater time in Chicago.  This year will prove to be an exceptional year in Chicago Theater, especially for Provision Theater, who starts off their season with a WORLD PREMIER of Truman Capote’s best -selling books, A CHRISTMAS MEMORY [...]

Solar Cells Get to 20% Conversion Efficiency

I am becoming a big fan of solar power as it begins the long march toward parity with current power supplies — I would love to get off the Commonwealth Edison grid and not have to pay that big electricity bill every month. So I was excited to see today that Suniva Inc. announced that [...]

Wait … Now who was President in 1929?

I try to stay apolitical on my blog, but I just love ole’ Joe Biden.  He says whatever he wants and sometimes, he angers his boss, sometimes he asks a man in a wheelchair to stand up, and other times he forgets history — but he is always sure to create some memorable quotes if [...]

Arrrrgh! It’s Talk like a Pirate Day!

Today marks International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD), a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Corvallis, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.  For example, an observer of this holiday would [...]

65 MPG but Not Available in USA

  Businessweek:  If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, offers a navigation system, and gets a whopping 65 miles to the gallon. Oh yes, and the car is made by Ford Motor (F), known widely for lumbering gas hogs. Ford’s [...]

Who Pays Taxes in America

As we are in the political season where each politican wants to use the federal government numbers to bolster his or her tax increase or tax cut, I thought I would share with you the plain facts about who pays taxes in the U.S. In 2006, the latest year to get actual numbers, there were [...]