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Maplewood’s 9/11 Memorial

tom — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:22:11 +0000

The Most Dangerous Machine In The World

tom — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:14:56 +0000

We've been trying to figure out what to do with some old furniture. At around the 4:00 mark I had an idea.

Nightmare in the Gulf

tom — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:16:36 +0000

Talking Points Memo re-published these photos of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform while it was burning and sinking into the Gulf of Mexico. I had no idea. Click for more...

Patrick Desbois

tom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:53:51 +0000

This last Sunday, SHU played host to a remarkable person, with a very remarkable mission. In 1941, after the Germans invaded Russia, they sent out special teams called Einsatzgruppen with the special mission to round up an kill civilian Jews. Unlike in Poland and Germany itself, there are no concentration camp sites, crematoria or gas [...]

Video of Hudson River Plane Crash

tom — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:21:32 +0000

The plane comes in from the left at around 2:00 in. In about 40 seconds people are already piling out onto the wings. Watch at the far right around 3:00, someone slips and falls in, and another passenger quickly moves out to help pull him/her back in. The first NY Waterway ferryboat is on the scene in less than four minutes.

From Beyond The Grave

tom — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:01:16 +0000

With Halloween just around the corner, here are some horrors that cousin Shari and I saw while exploring the cemeteries of Butler County, PA. These are not for the timid, so read on at your peril.

Seven Years

tom — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:49:33 +0000

Seven. Now there’s a number filled with symbolic meaning. God created the universe in seven days, there are seven deadly sins, seven virtues, seven sacraments. There’s the “seventh heaven,” as well as seven hells and seven days of the week. Seven seas and seven musical notes. Seven branches on a Menorah, and the book of [...]

Remembrances of the 2003 Blackout

tom — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:13:28 +0000

I didn't really realize I was supposed to remember, until I read about it being remembered in the paper yesterday morning. So here's what I remember. Late afternoon, Midtown Manhattan, the lights and my computer go out. I look out my office door, all the lights and all the computers are out. So is my phone. So are the lights out on the street and in the offices across the way...

Photographs of Hiroshima

tom — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:17:30 +0000

Last week ten previously unseen photos of Hiroshima, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer immediately after the bombing, were released by the Hoover Archives. Most of the photos we've seen of the aftermath are either sanitized, showing a sterile landscape from which everything has been simply removed, like this one:

Greetings From New Providence, NJ

tom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:07:33 +0000