I am looking forward to seeing this documentary. This is going to be a must have in the collection.

Between 1968 and 1972, 12 men walked upon the surface of the moon. All of the surviving crew from the Apollo missions tell their stories. With visually stunning NASA footage as counterpoint to this riveting firsthand testimony, the Sundance Audience award winner vividly conveys the daring and the danger of this remarkable achievement.

In the Shadow of the Moon

Popular Mechanics was definitely ahead of the curve when it came recognizing the fact that copy protection can stifle innovation:
It used to be that programs were easy to copy and change. But manufacturers began to lose money as many people made copies of software and gave them to their friends.

Now, many manufacturers have figured out how to “copy-protect” discs. A copy-protected disc—like a cartridge—can’t be copied or changed.

To our mind this is a disaster: Most people learn programming by changing programs to fit their own needs. This capability of customization is what makes computers so attractive. New ways of copy protection will probably be found soon. Until then, a computer owner may have to put up with being “locked out” of his own machine.

Modern Mechanix » Popular Mechanics Compares 6 Top Computers

This tax has generated over $6 billion every year! That is a lot of pennies. Gee how nice that we all can get a refund, but just only for the last three years. Something is better than nothing.

I wonder does that mean we have to digg up our long distance phone bills for the last three years?

The U.S. Treasury said Thursday it will stop collecting a 108-year-old telecommunications tax assessed to support the brief Spanish-American War and offer tax refunds for the past three years.

The 3 percent federal excise tax applied to all long-distance calls since 1898, when it was put in place at a time when only the wealthiest Americans had access to long-haul telephone services. President McKinley put the tax in place to help defray the cost of the Spanish-American War, which was sparked by the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in February, 1898.

Century-Old Telecom Tax Fades Away

This is just cool! Can you imagine you can see all sorts of cool things from classic cars to the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. And of course oddles and oddles of catsup!

8th Annual Catsup Bottle Summerfest

The World’s Largest Catsup Bottle stands proudly next to Route 159, just south of downtown Collinsville, Illinois. This unique 170 ft. tall water tower was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company for the G.S. Suppiger catsup bottling plant - bottlers of Brooks old original rich & tangy catsup.

Today I got up early and met my girlfriend and sister for the Race for the Cure in downtown St. Louis. I first heard about this good cause from an email at work. Edward Jones is a big sponsor and encouraged people to join the team. So I did. I got my girlfriend to join too! Then later I found out my sister was doing the race as well and we had a good time.

It turns out that the St. Louis race has set a national record. There were over 64,000 people at the race and it rasied over $2.1 million dollars.

Just recently on March 26, 2006, VH1 aired the music video for Nena’s “99 Red Balloons” continuously from 2pm EST to 3pm EST. The song, originally recorded in 1983 as a Cold War protest by German pop singer Nena, tells the story of 99 red balloons floating in the air on a summer’s day which are mistaken for a Soviet first strike.

Coincidentally, on March 23rd, we as in in the American people, just celebrated the anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s famed 1983 “Star Wars” speech in which he called for “the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”

It makes you wonder if the Great Communicator preferred the English or the German version.

After all red balloons are just red balloons.

This is a great video and we learn the true story of CTRL ALT DEL — I mean wait to see Bill Gates in this one.