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Current
Concerns
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Current
gas prices
(week of January 5, prices most
places $1.66 per gallon. Have we bottomed out? - S. K.
Smith)
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Did
you know?
(YouTube video)
(Shows exponential progression of
information technology. Week of January 5, over
354,000 views. - S. K.
Smith)
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The Universe
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Apollo
8 - 40th Anniversary (YouTube video)
(The Apollo 8 event is in my book
"Samantha at the Crossroad" - S. K. Smith)
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Large
Hadron Rap (YouTube video)
** Rappin' about CERN's Large
Hadron Collider! **
(As of January 5, almost 4.2 million views - S. K.
Smith)
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Power
of Ten (PowerPoint slideshow)
(We really are the center of the Universe
;0) - S. K. Smith)
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A
Star is Born (FoxNews.com)
(I worked on the Spitzer satellite, 2000 -
2002 - S. K. Smith)
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Dig
pinpoints Stonehenge origins (BBC News)
(Stonehenge may have been an ancient healing
center as well as a calendar to mark the solstices.)
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Cute Cats
(As you can see, I like cats
... - S. K. Smith)
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The
Mean Kitty Song
(YouTube video)
(As of January 5, the song had over 16.3
millions
views - S. K. Smith)
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An
Engineer's Guide to Cats (YouTube video)
(As of Janaury 5, the video had
over 3.0 millions
views - S. K. Smith)
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Miracle
Kitty (FoxNews.com)
(Meet Edgar and the vet who saved her face - Sat, 13 Dec
2008)
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Great Speeches
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Patton
Speech (YouTube video)
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The
Gettysburg Address
(audio)
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Sir Winston
Churchill
- Finest Hour
(YouTube video)
- We
Shall Fight Them on the Beaches ( YouTube video)
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Rudyard Kipling
- IF
(YouTube video)
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Crime and
Punishment
(Crime is
definitely not one of my favorite things, but some of the cases
are fascinating - S. K. Smith)
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Zodiac
Killer's Identity And Weapon Uncovered?
(cbs13.com)
(The Zodiac Killer case launched Clint
Eastwood's character "Dirty Harry." I will keep you
posted if this is a hoax or if verified - S. K. Smith)
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Jack
the Ripper revealed at last— (www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk)
(Jack the Ripper has fascinated
people for 120 years. "Jack the Ripper" even made an
appearance on the original "Star Trek" - S. K. Smith)
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1981
Murder of Son of America's Most Wanted Anchor John Walsh Is Solved
(foxnews.com)
(Condolences to the Walsh family and all victims
of such crimes - S. K. Smith)
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Art
Works
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"Mad"
magazine fold-ins
(Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form)
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Rock, Paper,
Scissors
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Print
your own ruled paper
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HotForWords
(HotForWords.com)
(Writer's block? Stuck on the meaning of
words to put on paper? Marina Orlova, a Russian philologist -
specializing in word origins - gives English lessons on her web site
and on YouTube - where she has almost 154 million views and counting.
She has appeared a few times on "The O'Reilly Factor.")
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