Tom McMahonThe Strategy of Bingo, The Excitement of Chess.San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary- January 14, 2004 San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary Photography by David Sanger Some praise for this wonderful new book by world-famous travel photographer David Sanger and writer John Hart: "This impressive collaboration between an environmental historianhttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740867383245... Authors Card Game- January 14, 2004 Authors is a popular card game that has been around for well over 130 years and is still a favorite for players both young and old. The game is very similar to Go Fish in where the players must request a specific card from the other player. If thathttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740866979129... Frank Lloyd Wrights Buildings Prove Difficult To Maintain- January 14, 2004 BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS Built by Frank Lloyd Wright, its believed to be the only chapel the famed architect designed and is an early example of what became his trademark prairie style. But like many Frank Lloyd Wright designs, the Pettit Memorial Chahttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740866439068... Is This What Science Has Become- January 14, 2004 From a lecture by Michael Crichton: Probably every schoolchild notices that South America and Africa seem to fit together rather snugly, and Alfred Wegener proposed, in 1912, that the continents had in fact drifted apart. The consensus sneered at contihttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740865973545... A Bone Marrow Transplant Success Story- January 14, 2004 A very nice first-person account by a pediatrics residenthttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740865474557... The Oldest Consumer Electronic Device Still In Production- January 13, 2004 HP 12C It started selling the financial calculator in 1981, the same year IBM Corp. introduced the personal computer. Today, with very few changes, the 12C is still HP's best-selling calculator. With its mortgage amortization and bond calculation functhttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740059848495... Coca-Cola Checkers- January 13, 2004 Coca-Cola Checkers A set of checkers with hand-sculpted bottle caps for checker pieces. The caps are custom painted with red Coca-Cola pieces and white Coke pieces. Also, you might want to check out the Lord of the Rings Checkers edition.http://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740059462121... MythTV- January 13, 2004 . . . is a build-it-yourself TiVohttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740058827651... The Whispering Wheel- January 13, 2004 A new Dutch invention can make cars, busses and other vehicles no less than 50 percent more efficient and thus more environmentally friendly. Better still, the technology is already available; it all comes down to a smart combination of existing systems.http://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740059117364... 911- January 13, 2004 From Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools: In the summer of 2001, French filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet began working on a profile of a rookie firefighter in New York City. They spent hundreds of hours filming an energetic probie named Tony Benetatos at a firhttp://tommcmahon.blogspot.com//archives/2004_01_11_tommcmahon_archive.html#10740058384638... |