Here are ten things I will never be able to do in this lifetime:

1. Be a member of a sorority
2. Be a child prodigy
3. Fully understand what it's like to be non-white / non-male
4. Grow up in a single parent home
5. Meet Richard Feynman, or any of the notable heroes in …

Yesterday, Lance Armstrong felt it was time to fess up to something that we pretty much already knew: Lance Armstrong was using performance enhancing drugs in order to help him win all of those cycling achievements. The outrage that followed was predictable: people believed in Lance's abilities to push the …

[caption id="attachment_3043" align="alignright" width="180"] One Mighty Dime. (Source: Wikipedia)[/caption]

Of all of the coins in the United States of American currency, none is more hard working than the humble dime. This lowly, misunderstood coin is a little workhorse, combining value with it's diminutive size. What other …

Just listened again to Jono Bacon's awesome song "Unite", which features a clip of Charlie Chaplin's speech from "The Great Dictator". Jono notes that the song uses this clip from The Great Dictator, which was released in 1940, and likely very much under the wiles of those who would like …

Like most geeks of my era, I have a fascination with the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films and "mythologies". They're an integral part of who I was as a child, and without them I could honestly say some of my interests would be much different than they are now …