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Google Video has collected a whole bunch of National Archives videos and documentaries. Very cool…

Google Video has collected a whole bunch of National Archives videos and documentaries. Very cool…

The Google Video A Meditation On the Speed Limit chronicles “an extraordinary act of public obedience” in which four college students take to an Atlanta highway and occupy all four lanes while driving the 55 mph speed limit, demonstrating the fruitlessness of most current speed limit laws. Hilarity/road rage ensues…

The Google Video A Meditation On the Speed Limit chronicles “an extraordinary act of public obedience” in which four college students take to an Atlanta highway and occupy all four lanes while driving the 55 mph speed limit, demonstrating the fruitlessness of most current speed limit laws. Hilarity/road rage ensues…

Check out the Cormorant, a design concept from Lockheed Martin’s famous Skunk Works:

The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous aircraft that could be outfitted with either short-range weapons or surveillance equipment, is designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes in some of the U.S. Navy’s gigantic Cold War–era Ohio-class submarines. These formerly nuke-toting subs have become less useful in a military climate evolved to favor surgical strikes over nuclear stalemates, but the Cormorant could use their now-vacant tubes to provide another unmanned option for spying on or destroying targets near the coast.

The article goes into some more detail, including some of the engineering challenges facing such an unusual design.

Check out the Cormorant, a design concept from Lockheed Martin’s famous Skunk Works:

The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous aircraft that could be outfitted with either short-range weapons or surveillance equipment, is designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes in some of the U.S. Navy’s gigantic Cold War–era Ohio-class submarines. These formerly nuke-toting subs have become less useful in a military climate evolved to favor surgical strikes over nuclear stalemates, but the Cormorant could use their now-vacant tubes to provide another unmanned option for spying on or destroying targets near the coast.

The article goes into some more detail, including some of the engineering challenges facing such an unusual design.

Not only did I miss the death of Don Knotts last week, but I also overlooked that of actor Darren McGavin, who died last week at the age of 83 of natural causes. McGavin was perhaps best known as a TV actor, starring in the series Mike Hammer and Kolchak, among others. His film credits included memorable roles in films like The Natural and A Christmas Story, as seen to the right.

It’s sad to see two actors representing some of my fondest childhood memories pass on like this. Here’s hoping that bad news doesn’t come in threes… 🙁

Beloved TV and movie actor Don Knotts died last Friday at the age of 81. Don Knotts was perhaps best known as the bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, but I like to remember him as the bumbling landlord Mr. Furley on Three’s Company, as seen to the right. His extensive movie and TV career began in the ‘50s and was cut short only recently due to illness. He will definitely be missed… 🙁

Update: YouTube has the entire episode of Three’s Company where Mr. Furley debuted available for viewing/download. I’m not surprised the episode got removed; here is a short video tribute to Mr. Furley by TVLand…

Finding something to criticize Bill O’Reilly about is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I’m going to do it anyway. O’Reilly recently once again showed what a hypocrite he is in stating that the U.S. should leave Iraq “as fast as humanly possible” because “there are so many nuts in the country.” For those of you keeping score, that’s just a bit of a departure from a previous statement in which he “called those advocating immediate withdrawal from Iraq ‘pinheads’ and compared them to Hitler appeasers.” What an asshole…

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