Day: June 21, 2009

  • A recipe and tutorial for iPhone GS mobile video blogging

    This weekend my kids and I visited our new lego store in Oklahoma City and explored the possibilities of mobile video blogging with the iPhone GS, as well as the latest offerings from Lego. The iPhone GS now supports video recording and copy/paste, with no jailbreak required, which are two key ingredients for mobile video…

  • Space tourism coming in 2010

    Thinking space tourism is a pipe dream for the distant future? Think again. Virgin Galactic is gearing up to deliver this service for $200,000 per ride starting in 2010. This may sound like an urban legend, but the groundbreaking of New Mexico’s spaceport last week in Upham was real. XCOR Aerospace and Armadillo Aerospace are…

  • Have a relative without email? Send them a letter with photos – via email!

    Services including Sunnygram, Presto and Celery offer a way for digital writers to correspond with analog readers. According to last week’s Time magazine article, “Hi Gramps, Here’s a Printout of My E-Mails,” By choice or chance, what Ahart calls the “unplugged population” has lost some important connections, especially the tradition of sitting around the family…

  • U.S. farm subsidies, Land Runs, and Hopelessness in the Dust Bowl

    I am continuing to appreciate the easy access we have to food in supermarkets, air conditioning, clean air to breathe, and many other things we normally take for granted as I read “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl,” by Timothy Egan. It’s also providing a…