Never Give In, Never, Never, Never

Winston Churchill: November 29, 1941 - Address To Harrow School …this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Here’s another leader from our past that has words to heed in this [...]

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Lincoln’s Birthday

Factoid: Lincoln was asked by his own party to step down and not run for re-election in 1864. Commented on HuffPost: Why Judd Gregg’s Change of Heart Was a Birthday Present to Lincoln’s Protégé – “Thanks for the refreshing post, running somewhat against the grain of most of the splinter heads in the media (take [...]

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Gov Two Oh!

Update 6 Feb 09 Infrastructure. Information. Community. Enabling Collaboration: Three Priorities for New Administration 5 Feb 09 on dot-gov: Transparency Requires Plain Language 2 Feb 09 White House Memo – Open Government Directive 26 Jan 09 GovLoop Group for Enabling Collaboration: Open Government Directive Original 30 Jan 09 Government is Information. The basis of US [...]

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Taking Risks: Roosevelt in Paris 1910

The credit belongs to the man in the arena…

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Earthrise: 40th Anniversary of Apollo 8

On Christmas Eve, forty years ago today, the crew of Apollo 8 pointed their television camera back toward Earth and shared their vision with the entire world. On December 21, 1968, Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders set out on the first ever journey to the Moon. Three days later they became the first [...]

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Media 70 in Austin and the Age of McLuhan

History of Media 70 and Timeline (Note: This is a work in progress. There may be memory lapses. After all, we are becoming part of the new ’60s Generation’. Additions and corrections welcome.) Media 70 was organized in the Summer of 1968 to produce a multi-media show for the Freshman Summer Orientation Program at University [...]

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Heinlein Lives On

For myself, I never tended to goosestep into pushing the writings, or personal life of Heinlein into a cookie cutter corner of human thought or political persuasion. To me, the basic Heinlein is enough: Hard Work, excessive logical thought, and extreme appreciation of sexy science or logical beauty, and pragmatism above all else. Authority? The authority at the ‘platoon’ level is plenty to run several universes (20 or so). Loyalty? To the person next to you, in the trench or cube. God? Let’s talk.

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Project Tektite: Living Research in the Sea 1969-1970

2010 Updates: See the Tektite Exhibit in Second Life at The Abyss Observatory; the Tektite Underwater Habitat Museum; Project Tektite 40th Anniversary Reunion in Lameshur Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands, November 6, 2010. (end date) 2009 Updates: Wikipedia Articles about Tektite I and II and Tektite Gallery Page Project Tektite 40th Anniversary Reunion at the [...]

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Forty Four Years – JFK

On November 22, 1963, I was in my high school General Science class 16 miles south of the Texas School Book Depository. Today, I drive by Dealy Plaza on my home from work. There are always lots of tourists standing around, talking, pointing, taking pictures. As I pick my way through the intersection, I see [...]

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You Go, Gore!

We awoke this morning to the news that Washington Post reported the following: Friday, October 12, 2007; 8:32 AM – Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize ‘Former vice president Al Gore and a United Nations panel that monitors climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work educating the world [...]

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