As I mentioned in an recent post, European scientists are about to use huge megalasers to create a rip in spacetime. The U.S. Air Force has something a little more modest in mind.  They’ve just published a wish list of technologies they’d like to see developed, and one of them is a “Directed Energy Weed […]

Can anyone recommend a good .pdf to .doc and/or .rtf translator? I’ve tried a number of them, and they all load the resulting file with massive amounts of formatting clutter, which make it (among other things) impossible to produce a decent result while working in e-formats. Friend of the blog TJIC managed to fix Hardwired […]

  The weekend featured Albuquerque’s annual Day of the Dead Parade— though, since it took place several days after the actual Day of the Dead, it was called the Marigold Parade (marigolds, for those of you not into the worship of Mictecacihuatl, are believed to attract spirits). The local community center was full of ofrendas, […]

So . . . who invented rock and roll? My money’s on this guy. Not only did he record “Roll ‘Em Pete”, the first song with a backbeat, in 1938, but he mastered a whole series of musical genres.  Blues, jump blues, R&B, jazz, big band swing, and finally rock and roll. In addition to […]