Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

This is a really cool con­cept for news­stands of the future. Plus it is my cities newspaper!http://designondeadline.blogspot.com/2007/06/digital-newsstand_14.html

 After 18 years the on again off again rumors of a 4th Indian Jones we finally have proof that its com­ing. If It’s Movies Blog » Blog Archive » First Image Of Har­ri­son Ford As Indi­ana Jones Since 1989

 Iran­ian naval forces in the Gulf tried to cap­ture an Aus­tralian Navy board­ing team but were vig­or­ously repelled, the BBC has learned. This is how we should be stand­ing up to the Ira­ni­ans. Don’t mess with Aus­tralia  BBC NEWS | Mid­dle East | Iran ‘unable to take Australians’

Demo­c­ra­tic Pres­i­den­tial Can­di­date Barack Obama has stepped it up a notch by offer­ing cell­phone wall­pa­per and ring­tones to his sup­port­ers. Noth­ing says “vote for me” like ring­tones made from remixed cam­paign speeches set to music. Sure beats cam­paign but­tons I guess. Barack Obama Ringtones

> First of all let me say I have been out of pocket for the last few months. I recently started a new job and I have devoted all of my time to it but now I hope to be able to devote time to my blog and begin post­ing daily. It is intu­itive, has […]

>For those of you who are liv­ing in a window-less bub­ble and depend on this blog for your news, yes­ter­day Jet­Blue flight 292 suf­fered a mal­func­tion with their land­ing gear and had to make an emer­gency land­ing. The plane landed safely. The inter­est­ing part of the story was the fact that Jet­Blue did NOT censor […]

>This is a storm of nearly unmatched destruc­tive power that Texas has ever seen. Please pray for the many fam­i­lies that will be affected.Hur­ri­cane Rita is the sev­en­teenth named storm, ninth hur­ri­cane, fifth major hur­ri­cane, and sec­ond cat­e­gory five hur­ri­cane of the 2005 and Atlantic hur­ri­cane sea­son. The storm has already impacted Florida and Cuba, […]

>I am already pay­ing 99 cents for songs on iTunes and frankly, that’s too much. When you do the math, an iPod Nano (see my ear­lier post) holds 1,000 songs. At 99 cents a song that’s equal to a lit­tle less than $1,000 to fill it. I don’t have $1,000 to spend on music. It […]

>Accord­ing to this arti­cle on space.com the “space ele­va­tor” is not to far away. The Lift­Port Group, the space ele­va­tor com­pa­nies, announced Sep­tem­ber 9 that it has received a waiver from the Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA) to use air­space to con­duct pre­lim­i­nary tests of its high alti­tude robotic lifters. The lifters are early pro­to­types of […]

>Well, it’s about to hap­pen, the first trans­plant of human facial tis­sue to a liv­ing per­son. I think that it could be a great thing for the recip­i­ent but it seems to me that there is too much risk for a “non-vital” surgery. Recon­nect­ing thou­sands of nerves and blood ves­sels before the tis­sue degrades past […]