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Are there any fans of the monthly magazine called POPULAR SCIENCE?

Well they've archived,*online*,their entire 137 year history of monthly issues for you to peruse.

137 YEARS

Oh,did I mention its FREE!

http://www.popsci.com/announcements/article/2010-03/new-browse-137-years-popsci-archive-free

The Invaders - now that's an oldie, but a goody.

Speaking of aliens and the enemy amongst us:

Obama calls 'entrepreneurship summit' with Muslims

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c429eac8e6bddb6d430d2b4d28386dd9.551&show_article=1

link can be found on Drudge.

Mr.g very cool link - bookmarked.

Flipping through the channels this evening and happened upon an interview by the CBC with Mosab Yousef, son of a Hamas official and convert to Christianity.

His denunciation of Islam at the end was quite astounding, more so that it was on the CBC. Expect heads to roll, so to speak.

Youtube video here.

My thanks also Mr. g.

Hear, hear, Mr. G, I've spent many happy hours perusing the historic pages of Popular Science magazine over the last while, via its Google interface. I don't know of any direct way to browse whole magazine issues by year, but I have found that the following link does take you to a whole magazine issue browser, and that you can fiddle with the "start=" parameter to determine what year to start browsing at:

http://books.google.com/books/serial/ISSN:01617370?start=700&rview=1

Here's February, 1949, for example, I just picked it at random from the URL shown above.

Can anyone remember when Popular Mechanics had a road test section? I remember reading an article by a guy named Tom McCall(?), on the 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner. I was 13, at the time and really wanted one.

Can someone find a link to that?

Here are the Popular Mechanics archives, including
direct access to a handy-dandy browse issue by year
function. Here's the March, 1950 issue.

The 1950 issue of Popular Mechanics was a gas (guzzler). I don't recall the cars being that large, mind. I was only 1 year old.

The BCHRT & Guy Earle continues with trail still on for March 29 in Vancouver:

http://thedailyrasp.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-bchrt-whats-wrong-with-being.html

Temp at 9:00 PM CST, Eureka, Station, Nunavut. -42°C. Don't see no icebergs melting yet.

Re: The Invaders. Not the best, at least not compared to "The Twilight Zone" or "X Files." Very "low budget." Sorry Vit!!

check out page 156 of the 1950 issue. its about shale oil. says that they could make a plant to produce 100000bbls/day but its too expensive , the price $400million

Understood, Joe, yet that's part of the beauty: it's a classic
low-budget cartoon moral story with humans playing the
roles of the cartoon characters. Like the first year of Star
Trek, they're all based on Bugs Bunny's seminal works.

JoeCitizen - My all time fav was Twighlight zone. As a kid, I was sent to bed most of the time b4 I could watch the ending of the Invaders episode. I think I only saw a couple through to the end. It did not garner the cult following like the Twighlite zone - everyone recognizes that theme song.

I agree about the Twilight Zone, gentlemen, indeed, you may enjoy our December 20 episode of Late Nite Radio, in which we noted, in our Christmas Extravaganza, the Changing Of The Guard, II, III, episode of The Twilight Zone (25:00).

Just realized it was Mechanix Illustrated, and the journalist's name was, actually, Tom McCahill. I remember some of his articles. He was an outspoken old cuss. Smoked a pipe, wore a necktie, and used some very colourful language.

Mr.g, for some reason I started getting Popular Science via snail mail for free. Maybe ASME shares email lists with them.

Mostly it's "meh". I find myself spending a total of 10 minutes reading it (as compared to 60 minutes with Car and Driver).

Vit, I actually like the original Outer Limits episodes better than Twilight Zone. Don't forget Night Gallery!

CBC: Canada wanted Afghan prisoners tortured

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/05/afghan-attaran005.html

I would say shame on the CBC but except that I know you can't shame the shameless.

Even NDP types are getting annoyed at the Islamists attempts to force their culture & law on us.. These folks haven't figured out yet this is deeper than they can acknowledge. If they did. There entire philosophy would disintegrate. particularly relativism.
Mindy comes up with some good articles for a Layton drone.

How much are we willing to accommodate?
By Mindelle Jacobs
Canadians are among the most accommodating people in the world but when we’re blatantly being pushed around, we tend to get our backs up.

A Muslim immigrant in Quebec is the latest person to go crying to a human rights commission that she’s been mistreated in a tug of war over religious/cultural beliefs.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/columnists/mindelle_jacobs/2010/03/04/13117901.html

Libyan and other arab reaction against Switzerland's minaret boycott is heating up.

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME01.XAM13563.html

So far no sign about whether this is bothering the Swiss any, but if Switzerland caves due to this pressure, or any other, it's bad sign for the West's ability to hold its ground against Islamic creep into their countries.

Let's visit the harperdex 1000 again!

http://harperdex.ca/

Now trading at: $1,257.85

A gain of almost 26% in a little over a year. Not too bad!

Looks like the last loophole for increasing enrollment in English schools in Quebec is being closed, thanks to the Supreme Court which advised the Quebec government to come up with another method to keep parents from sending their kids to private school for a year of English instruction in order to be eligible for English school. The Court had said Bill 104 (which tried to close the loophole) could not stand as it is.

If the Liberal government goes along with the recommendations of the advisory board Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française, it will move to expand Bill 101 to cover unsubsidized (by the government) private schools. Even students with disabilities which make it difficult for them to learn a second language would now all be forced to go to French schools.

MAGW: Magical AGW "Mr Smith explained"; "Mr. Pramote" has a rebuttal.

"Mr Pramote said he believed the drought spreading in many areas of the country is a normal weather pattern."
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"Fall in Mekong's water level not China's fault, says Smith

The drastic drop in the level of the Mekong River has nothing to do with China retaining water upstream, says Smith Dharmasarojana, the director of the National Disaster Warning Centre (NDWC).

Rather, the decline is a result of global warming, he said yesterday.

Mr Smith explained that dams in China have to release water to generate electricity. Therefore, it was not the upstream dams but the effects of global warming that were causing the glaciers in the Himalayas to melt rapidly. A lot of the water from the melting has already flowed into the sea and there is not enough of it to sustain the water level in the Mekong River, Mr Smith said."

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/33969/fall-in-mekong-water-level-not-china-fault-says-smith

According to Stephen Taylor's blog, the PMO has issued the following statement:

“We offered to hear from Canadians on this issue and they
have already spoken loud and clear. They overwhelmingly do
not want to open the issue. The Government will not proceed
any further to change our national anthem.”

Lots and lots of ice up north I guess; enough to trap ships anyway. I guess the Swedes are paying the price for the sandy beaches of Baffin Island.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/03/05/sweden.ice.ships.stuck/index.html

Rex Murphy's thoughts on the Harper government's preference to tackle a non-issue in the national anthem and its reticence to tackle a very real one in various attacks on free speech in this country:

When is Stephen Harper going to raise a storm on a real issue, one which is genuinely concordant with his party's philosophy, the dear wish of most of his supporters, and many who are not, as well -- that of stripping the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its democratically injurious superintendence and prosecution of free speech?

If the Prime Minister was looking for something to animate this week's slab of dim bromides, why not a signal that he has finally heard the voices of thousands from coast to coast on those wretched inquisitions conducted under the provisions of federal and provincial HRCs?

Why not a statement in the Throne Speech on the value of free speech? Why not some expression of where he and his government stand on the increasingly invasive, procedurally wild, frequently ludicrous, unfair, selective and ideologically driven tribunals and inquiries? A real government, and a real prime minister, wouldn't have ignored the issues of free speech, free thought and free press wrapped up in this question. But on the HRCs Stephen Harper has been a perfectly mute sphinx.

I suppose it is too much to ask, even after the long siesta of prorogation, that the government show some flash of courage on a matter of real principle and genuine import. Better instead this confected tempest on a non-issue, the factitious "sexism" of our national anthem. It would be a final and just irony if some fatuously aggrieved complainant took the government before the Human Rights Commission on the distress caused by "all thy sons command." Maybe if Mr. Harper and his buddies were caught in the menacing toils of the HRC process, they'd finally get the point and find some minimal courage.

Socialism collapses in Greece. Will Turkey help?
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"Riots in Athens as thousands protest against cutbacks

Masked youths stoned police outside Greece's parliament today in protest at cutbacks proposed to try to end the country's debt crisis.

Riot police responded with tear gas and baton charges as more than 7,000 demonstrators gathered in the centre of Athens. They arrested six demonstrators, while onlookers said two officers were badly beaten.

Protesters attacked the leader of Greece's biggest trade union and chased guards away from the country's tomb of the unknown soldier. Youths also fought with police inside the Council of State and tried to break into the labour ministry.

Inside parliament, politicians were debating the €4.8 billion (£4.33 billion) austerity bill, which is expected to pass despite strong opposition. It will raise consumer taxes and slash public sector workers' pay by up to 8%."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2465621/posts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoZ7odscKCM

Chairman Obama appoints Communist to 9th Circuit
Enviomentalists need protection

George Soros defending Obama as "not a Communist" WTF

Thanks Vitruvius, I used to watch the invaders as a child, in French and in Spanish. The stiff little finger was my favorite.