By Nasir Hashir. I live in a small town in California. I was born here and my parents have been here since the 1960’s. Because my older brother was a hot rod enthusiast, my childhood sports heroes were low-budget independent drag racers, and not football, ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak. Have you ever seen a time zone map? Its a rectangular projection of our globe, like most maps, where small distances at the poles are stretched for thousands of miles and large distances at the equator look tiny by comparison. But ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak Following a recent failed revamp of the original infamous fattening American Food Pyramid, the USDA has introduced The Food Plate. It really is quite simple, and easy to see that half of our food should be fruits and vegetables. It should ... Read More

By Leda Meredith. “Why have an audience? Why not just create your art for art’s sake and dance it in, say, your living room?” That’s one of the first questions I ask students in my choreography classes. The initial answers always focus on what the audience ... Read More

(c) KITV.com By Jeffrey the Barak. The State of Hawai’i is the only place in the United States in which you can lose your shadow, outside, in the middle of the day. when there are no clouds. In Hawai’i this is known as Lahaina Noon ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak Words cannot adequately describe Arne Jacobsen’s iconic mid-century designs, but it’s always nice to view a few of them in one place. So this is not an article, it’s just a vision massage. Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak Today at the Google I/O 2011, the Chrome operating system finally became a reality. Google executives, whom many expected to announce the death of the project, instead proclaimed the Chrome future and expounded upon the advantages of Chrome, a browser-based operating ... Read More

New logo, less Simon-like, but still no product! By Jeffrey the Barak. We all still wait, or maybe we don’t. I titled this article Waiting for Google Chrome, part 20, but I’m not really waiting so intently as I was in the first 19 parts. ... Read More

By Jeffrey the Barak April 1st 2011 Now that we have discovered the Gnarl Jump, and matter can be made to jump from spot to spot indefinitely, it can be used to turn wheels with pistons, or it can be used to endlessly power huge ... Read More

By Isabella Woods The new Kindle range from Amazon doesn’t replace your iPad, but if you’re looking to make a change of eBook reader or tablet computer, your choices have been expanded. Both the Kindle Touch and the Kindle Fire are must buy gadgets. Getting ... Read More