Harry Olivieri, who with his brother Pat is credited with inventing the cheesesteak has passed away. He left behind a far better world thanks to his deeds, no man can do more.

July 22nd: Today in 1933 Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world after flying for 7 days, 19 hours. Post was a tremendously popular flier but only two years after this flight he and writer Will Rogers were killed during a crash in Alaska.

I love England, really I do, and as Jeremy Clarkson has shown us, they do things sooo much better there than we do here in stupid old America.
Via Fark

General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz says GM is working on Hybrids only to get good press and that the future is in Ethanol. He may be right about ethanol, but if the only reason they are working on hybrids is for press they are fools. They should be working on hybrids because they may [...]

July 21rst: Today in 1873 the James/Younger gang pulls off what is thought to be the first train robbery in the American West. They derailed the train, killing the driver, and robbed the baggage train. Interestingly they were apparently dressed in full Ku Klux Klan garb, something I had missed reading about this before.
As a [...]

Which Disney Character are you? I got Peter Pan, not sure how on target this on is….

You scored as Peter Pan. Your alter ego is Peter Pan. You are a child at heart. Anything you believe is possible, and you never want to grow up.

Peter Pan

81%

Donald Duck

69%

Sleeping Beauty

63%

Goofy

63%

Ariel

63%

Pinocchio

50%

The Beast

50%

Cinderella

38%

Snow White

38%

Cruella De Ville

19%

Which Disney [...]

This one is popular out there and you may have seen it already, but it is brilliant. Mostly brilliant if you are old enough to remember Space Invaders when it was the ultimate game of the day, but brilliant anyway.

Via Cnet

I just picked up and started Julian Dibbell’s new book Play Money and am really enjoying it. It is about farming gold in computer games for money, a topic that interests me both as a player and as someone who is interested in how our economies are becoming more abstract and fragile. Think about what [...]

Moving a blog is rarely fun, but David from Pedantic Nuthatch has officially opened his new blog A Honey of an Anklet today, drop by and give it a look. Can’t be beat for the interesting, the obscure, or the nachos.

July 20th: Today in 1969 Apollo 11 sets down on the moon. Later that day Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon stepping forth with his now famous quote:
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind thanks to Coca Cola and IBM Computers!
Ok, maybe that isn’t a [...]