Stanley Meyer’s Water Fuel Cell is the WikipediaPick today. Back in ’95 he claimed to have invented a way to run a car on nothing but water and a battery. His fuel cell would break the water molecules apart into hydrogen and oxygen using less energy then you would get back from burning them. He [...]
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WikipediaPick: Whiz Kids TV Series
April 24th, 2008 
Richard Whiz Kids I’m not done with these goofy ’80s TV shows just yet! Whiz Kids was inspired by the movie WarGames and is about a group of teenage computer hackers that use their skillz to solve crimes. Of course I watched it back in the day. It starred Matthew Laborteaux. He played Albert on Little [...]
WikipediaPick: Automan TV Series
April 21st, 2008 Richard One of my co-workers and I got into a discussion about sci-fi TV shows from the ’80s. Having been a computer nerd growing up in the ’80s I didn’t miss too many sci-fi shows back then. I remember watching the series Automan as a kid. I don’t recall it being the best of shows but [...]
WikipediaPick: Grok
April 18th, 2008 Richard Grok As first used in the Heinlein novel Stranger in a Strange Land: “Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because [...]
WikipediaPick: Freethought
April 17th, 2008 Richard I’m going to try something new to get a break from all the coding examples I’ve been posting. It’s simple, I’ll pick a Wikipedia topic and post about it. The topic can be anything I feel like. I’ll learn something and you might also. Freethought Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that beliefs should [...]
