And sales continue their fall – source: CNNMoney.

Knight Rider Intro

Williams’ Blaster arcade game – (the little-known sequel to Robotron)

Command the powers of Coleco ADAM!

August 1988 CompuServe ad

The Casio DBX-100 watch I once wore with pride

The Radio Shack 150-in-1 Science Fair Kit I played with until it stopped working

Play Zork.

[On NSA wiretaps and federal secrecy under review by courts]

“It is rather clear that what the President ordered was a federal crime.  But that causes a problem, because many of the Democratic and Republican leaders have promised each other they would not start impeachment proceedings.  But when a federal judge says the President committed a crime, it’s pretty darn hard to ignore that.”

Check ‘em.

Engadget covers a turbine that claims to be 1000x more efficient than a normal windmill.  Neat.

An incisive piece by Benn Steil…

“The dollar’s privileged status as today’s global money is not heaven-bestowed. The dollar is ultimately just another money supported only by faith that others will willingly accept it in the future in return for the same sort of valuable things it bought in the past. This puts a great burden on the institutions of the U.S. government to validate that faith. And those institutions, unfortunately, are failing to shoulder that burden. Reckless U.S. fiscal policy is undermining the dollar’s position even as the currency’s role as a global money is expanding.”

As a solution, Steil explores “private money” – but cautions that “there is little to commend in digging up gold in South Africa just to bury it again in Fort Knox…. the question is how long such a well-managed fiat system can endure in the United States. The historical record of national monies, going back over 2,500 years, is by and large awful.”

Trumpeting a Credit Crisis.

Another case of Taser abuse.  Hope the cop is fired, tased, and then loses a lawsuit.

In light of these “revelations” from Scott McClellan, Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley discussing accusations against the President on Olbermann’s show tonight;

“The most obvious [accusation] would be conspiracy and obstruction of justice, to the extent to which he might have directed his subordinates. But, you know, the President is allowed to do remarkably stupid things and remarkably callous things. At a minimum, what is involved here is a serious question about the President’s credibility. This was the President who said he would fire anyone involved in the release of this type of classified information. He then found that his closest people were involved – and nobody got fired. And now we find that one of his closest aides is saying that the President was involved. That he might not have known it was untrue but he gave untrue information. But why is that? If the President wasn’t fully informed of the facts, what was the purpose of calling in a subordinate and saying ‘this is what I think happened’? We deal with that in a lot of conspiracies in corporations and we take a rather negative and dark view of that.”

Turley has also called for the transcripts of Bush and Cheney’s statements to Fitzgerald.

Call me a dreamer, but I’m still holding out hope for Congress to grow, as Maher said a couple weeks ago, ‘just one ball.’ It would be encouraging to see them roar to life and really investigate these crimes. Please encourage your member of congress (especially if you’re a Vermontster or in Michigan’s 14th) to grow or even borrow one.

A Magic Bullet, a Grassy Knoll, an Enduring Mystery.