American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Art Wednesday: Pictures from Space

Calling it ‘art’ is a bit of a cheat I guess. I mean, is it really art if it is just a picture taken from a satellite doing its job? There is no eye for the artistic behind the taking of these pictures and it just so happens that some one was smart enough to [...]

1 QUID = 6.25 Quid

Travelex took a bold step into the future the other day and announced that they have developed currency for use in space. An interesting step, since we currently don’t have any commercial space flights, but with companies like Virgin working on developing commercial space flights (and I believe already selling tickets for them) and a [...]

Space Sickness

As I type this I know my computer is headed for a crash, so I am going to make this brief, to the point and save it before I reach the point of impending doom where I actually loose data.
Anyway, I came across this article the other day about… well, the title kind of explains [...]

Neat-O!

Neatorama has a posting today of the 5 videos you have to see from Videosift, a site that, at least theoretically, sifts through the videos on YouTube and gets rid of all the crap. Of the top 5 that Neatorama claims you need to see I am passing on only one of them- A NASA [...]

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