• If:Book launched gam3r 7h30ry today. Interesting project. Read about it here.
• Jonathan Safran Foer on Joseph Cornell: Flights of fancy.
• Modern Mechanix offers a 1964 Popular Science article: Build your own laser.
• Under the buckskins: Indian Women as Sex Objects.
• George P. Dvorsky of Sentient Developments mulls over Death and the brain.
• The History of the Knights Templar by Charles G. Addison, 1842.
Used to be piles of mags like that around my house 40-odd years ago. Every issue, it seemed, had something powered by the ubiquitous air-cooled Volkswagen engine (these motors lent themselves to light planes, boats, hoverwhatzits, and jizzamagoobers, because being air-cooled they were very, very simple and light compared to the water-cooled engines in most cars).
Love the just-weird section; you’ll appreciate this one:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/01/17/american-citizens-are-better-informed-thanks-to-advertising/