Good Morning Silicon Valley says that space elevators may be a step closer:
Good news for all of you who’ve been waiting patiently in the lobby for the space elevator to arrive: The cable may get here soon. Researchers at the University of Texas, Dallas, have figured out a way to harvest forests of carbon nanotubes […]

First, a quick introduction. I would like to thank the people at Independent Sources for honoring me with the invite to express my opinions here. I go by Moon. I host Moonage Webdream. The thing I like doing most is looking outside the box on issues. There are tons of […]

Korea’s Samsung has been spending millions of dollars in America to promote itself as a high-end brand and then they turn around and mar their image by using a ridiculous English slogan, “Bravo Your Life,” in its home country. Samsung is not alone in using grammatically incorrect English language slogans. Baskin Robbins’ new slogan in […]

As LA Observed wrote, the story had a simple ending as he was found pretty much where he was last seen.
But how does one elude sheriff’s deputies, dogs, helicopters, news media, friends, relatives, etc. right where they are all looking for you? Evidently, if you think the world is out to kill you, and […]

In a surprising development, Christian Irwin, the Topanga record producer who disappeared last Sunday under bizarre circumstances was found in relatively good physical condition Friday night not far from where he vanished.
He was found standing naked in a stream and washing a pair of pants. He was initially mistaken for a transient but then recognized […]

Gadget blog engadget has imagined what they would have looked like if they had been around in 1985. First, they’d be a dial-in BBS. Then, they’d have posts like this:
Windows 1.0!
Related entries: Desktops
You loved PC-DOS (or maybe you didn’t), you live with MS-DOS, but it’s too early to sit around and for Micro-soft’s IBM parnership […]

The current issue of Cosmopolitan caught our eye, and it’s not just because Scarlett Johansson is on the cover — althought that helped.
No, it was the headline “Hot New Sex Tricks.” We’re going to call the Federal Trade Commission with a false advertising claim.
Why? It’s the word “new.” With perhaps three billion sexually active people […]

Our post on the flyer for missing music producer Chris Irwin noted that there was nothing on the L.A. Sheriff’s Department website to help the public. As of noon Friday, that is still true.
LA County seems to be behind the times. Back in March, Wired ran a piece titled “Collective Detective Police Work.” Excerpts:
“(In the […]

“We don’t care where people come from; we don’t mind what religion they’ve got or what their particular view of the world is. But if you want to be in Australia, if you want to raise your children in Australia, we fully expect those children to be taught and to accept Australian values and beliefs.”
“We […]

Significant developments emerged on the fifth day of missing record producer Christian Irwin, who fled his home last Sunday night under what can only be described as bizarre circumstances.
Major Theories on the Disappearance
Since it is unknown what has happened to Christian, investigators are trying to fit what is known into several possible theories including:

Internet scam […]

Topanga, California
I certainly didn’t start my morning thinking I’d be spending much of the day at a crime scene in Topanga Canyon trying to figure out what had happened to missing music producer Christia Irwin. I went for a training ride on my road bike up Topanga Canyon. As I was coming up into the […]

The disappearance of music producer Christian Irwin has been linked in the media to “Nigerian internet scam(s).” The Los Angeles Times reported
Several months ago, Irwin told his friend and former business partner Fortunato Procopio, 47, that he had been unwittingly drawn into a Nigerian Internet fraud and had been threatened by the con artists, Procopio […]

Here is what the Sheriff’s Department flyer looks like. They are posted all over Topanga, but for some reason is not also at the Sheriff’s website.

Click here for more information on the disapperance of Chrisian Irwin.

Music Producer Calls Friend Before Disappearance

The case of the missing music producer is getting darker, weirder and scarier. Christian Julian Irwin, 48, has been missing since early Sunday morning. His last known contact was a frantic cell phone call saying he was being chased by people with dogs. He said he believed these people would […]

I wish all the mean people, if you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we’d have no terrorists left. Like, don’t kill innocent people for no reason. It’s not fair. We love everybody. We’d even like them if they said they’re sorry. It’s […]