Thanks to co-worker and friend Rob Wade for sending me this great video of someone getting a back seat ride in an F/A-18. During my days in the “short haircut club for men” we would sometimes take people up in the back seat of our RF-4B’s, though most frequently it happened when we were outside […]
The DoD has begun to discuss high level elements of a project to build a hypersonic UAV system, currently working under the name Falcon Blackswift. The details that have emerged thus far are quite tantalizing. From Wired: According to the few details available on Blackswift, Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works shop is the main contractor […]
There’s a reason why we Americans still have an inferiority complex when it comes to British diction, erudition and (to a certain extent) humor: Can you name one, even one member of the US Congress who could write and deliver a speech such as the one given by William Hague above? Sigh. Hat tip to […]
…but this video of outtakes while anchoring in New Hampshire makes her downright likable: Doesn’t mean that I’m going to start watching CBS Evening News, though. I haven’t watched network evening news since David Brinkley retired or thereabouts. Hat tip to Suitably Flip. ..bruce w..
Ah a classic YouTube presentation. Thanks to the Fake Steve Jobs for making me aware of this.. The poor fellow from India does not seem to realize that someone has loaded up a swarm of Darth Vader samples and is playing them back.
Not that I ever did any ditch surfing, but that standing water in the roadside ditches…. I lived in Houston (actually, Clear Lake and League City) for two years and saw ditches like this filled with water like this a lot. Hat tip (again) to Dave Barry. ..bruce w..
The Onion, not content with mere print/web journalism, has moved into video as well: In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power? ..bruce w..
…historians and social anthropologists will still be mining “The Simpsons” for insights into 20th/21st Century civilization. But apparently not via YouTube — the clip I linked to disappeared (“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”) just a few hours after I posted it. Ah, well. Anyway, hat tip to Eschaton while it lasted. ..bruce […]
You’ve heard about the Clinton-crying-in-New-Hampshire incident — now see the footage: Hat tip to PowerLine. UPDATE! The clip below is frankly more entertaining (in any sense) and better-acted than the one above — pretty sad (but not surprising) when Andrew Lloyd Weber gets upstaged by “some random chick on YouTube”: Hat tip to The Jawa […]
Drew Carey (yes, that Drew Carey) does a penetrating look at the use of eminent domain to push out established businesses for developers — and one city (Anaheim) that it taking a very different approach: Hat tip to OpinionJournal.com. ..bruce w..
