42 Years Ago

"A dark age is not just when you as a civilization have forgotten how to do something, it's when you forget that you ever could."

Rocket scientist Jeff Greason, one of Time magazines "Inventors of the Year" and president and co-founder of XCOR; a leader in the field of reusable long life rockets, examines where NASA has failed and how liberty and free enterprise will lead us into the final frontier.

521 Days Left

Okay, even if you don't buy into the whole 2012 hoopla it doesn't diminish the odds of some sort of cataclysmic event occurring that could put us smack dab in the middle of Road Warrior territory even before then. All fear mongering aside "better prepared than dead" has always been my motto and nothing says "bring it on end times" quite like a well packed bug-out-bag. I'm not talking about your typical domestic fire/earthquake emergency kit that you pick up at Target here, I'm talking a machete, gun, trip wire, bowie knife hardcore them or us escape pack. If history has taught us anything its that when the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. So it's time to get ahead of the curve and the first step toward surviving a disaster is preparation then it's all about surviving each other. Even if you don't share my misanthropic outlook I think you can agree that if nothing else it is worth it just for the peace of mind provided by knowing your set to bug out at a moments notice and hey its cheaper than Prozac!

Check out how to make a 72 hour emergency evacuation kit over at the Art of Manliness.

Exploring Escher-esque Spacial Anomolies in The Shining

Casual viewers of Kubrick's classic horror film The Shining are unlikely to catch the architecturally impossible design of the Overlook Hotel. Filled with enough windows looking outside where there should be hallways, impossible doors and an almost untraceable floorplan its a Hotel that would make lady Winchester proud.