Yesterday, I headed out to the Rainbow Gardens Geological Preserve, that rock hounder's paradise between Las Vegas and Lake Mead. Rainbow Gardens was named for its colorful rock strata, but for a few fleeting days in spring, wildflowers add even more brilliance to the display. With a little help from Vivaldi and Animoto.com, I made a music video out of the photos I took of the desert in bloom and a surprisingly attractive rusty old muffler. (more...)

The newspapers are dying, and everyone old enough to venerate ink is crying. But… come on! Can we really claim we didn’t see this coming? Isn’t it rather obvious that headline news is better distributed by a medium that can update itself more often than every 24 hours, not to mention deliver itself to you by means less time-consuming, tree-killing and altogether un-green than newsprint motored around by internal combustion engine? Yeah, what a difference a data stream makes. And a high speed Internet connection. And words like “wiki,” but I’m getting ahead of myself. Because OMG! There’s the wail again. It reminds me not a ... (more...)