Archives for June, 2008

Teach the Controversy!


I’m all about teaching alternative theories to evolution, so I bought a T-shirt to prove it.  (Hey, if you buy the T-shirt, it makes it so).  Wearscience.com has some great designs promoting “Teach the Controversy”, including the aliens-built-the-pyramids, the-devil-planted-fossils-to-trick-us, and the earth-as-center-of-the-universe.  They even have a design of the Great A’Tuin for you Discworld fans [...]

The History of Spaceflight


I’ve started collecting a few books on “futurism” from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s.  I love the illustrations and ideas about the future from a time when mankind was just going to the moon.  It seems there was no limit to where they thought we’d be 100 years from now (then).   Matt over at Paleo-Future [...]

A Better Way to Browse Amazon


Our friends over at Lifehacker have shared a great new way to browse Amazon.com just like browsing shelves at a bookstore.  Zoomii displays books on “shelves” grouped by Bestsellers, New Arrivals, Science Fiction, etc.  You can drag around the bookstore or even create your own shelves by using the search feature.  And when you [...]