Author: Roger Born

This is a cool site: The Museum of April Fools Jokes. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html It was revealed today that out of the top one hundred April

For the first time ever, the FAA has given a license to a Mojave California private firm to fly into space. I can tell

It is rare that something truly groundbreaking comes along. And something has, in Japan. A new method of manufacturing clothes without sewing or cutting

Imagine our world with no golden rule. Think of our civilization with no free speech, no right to bear arms, and no right to

(Sorry Bruce – Couldn’t resist this one!) Out here in the beautiful high desert around Mojave California, sixteen grand will buy you an attractive

This is one very beautifully photographed book of Apple’s designs over the past few decades. There are even prototypes of desk, lap and ‘other’

Not much to talk about, but I like it when dates do things like this, this 20th of April, the 04th month of the

Remember when we wrote about Memes? There is another term out there now, but I have no idea how new or how old it

If you ever fly commercial air travel, you may remember being stuck in the back of a three engine 727 Boeing jet, listening to

You have to understand something here. I am deaf, or at least very hard of hearing. My normal routine is to lip read and

Its probably only in California (where else?) that we have these little coin filled metal and plastic gambling machines at the end of all

RING SHIP by Roger Born, Copyright 2004, USA Long overdue. We should have discovered it decades ago, perhaps even a century ago, since we

Today, watching the funeral procession of former President Ronald Reagan on television, I saw so many people who came to pay their respects, and

More news updates from Mars and Saturn Source: Rohan News Agency THE SPIRIT ROVER HAS A FLAT TIRE The Mars rover Spirit, one of

At noon yesterday, my wife Connie, the requisite high school teacher, finally finished all the grading for her English classes, and entered her student’s

Monday, June 21st, 2004 – Mojave Spaceport, California Today marked the first time civilians took hold of space, for the rest of us. And

ONE WEEK TO GO! Lessee here . . . First, the Disclaimer: This is a WISH LIST ONLY. No rumors here, folks. Your mileage

Nothing going on here. I just LOVED that title, is all. (Just kidding.) There is A LOT going on here, actually. The screams you

Whenever such horrific events occur, such as the great number of tsunamis that hit India and Southeast Asia a few weeks ago, people wonder

REAL WORLD VIEW Billy Gates just delivered his keynote yesterday, at the Consumer Electronics Show (Note: this is CES, not CSI). His delivery was