…all brought to light in the Wall Street Journal: After months in the making, this morning’s Wall Street Journal offers a front page story featuring the "amateur fusion" community hosted here at fusor.net: Many of these hobbyists call themselves "fusioneers," and have formed a loosely knit community that numbers more than 100 world-wide. Getting into […]
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…ain’t so bad after all: While many of his peers spend rainy afternoons watching cartoons, Lance sits in front of the Military Channel learning. Other children in his grade really like Hannah Montana, but Lance’s favorite shows have titles like Weaponology. He defends television. "People say TV makes you dumb, but it doesn’t!" Lance said
You’ve heard of The Farnsworth Invention, now you can watch The Farnsworth Confession: Mr. Farnsworth here should take heart from the Broadway version of the story. According to the play, Philo Farnsworth’s invention was flawed by a fatal "light problem," and really wasn’t very useful. And the Farnsworth character says near the end that an
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Personally, I’ve always found it ironic that the TV Academy elected to name their award for Corporate Engineering Achievement for the lone inventor who spent his career fighting one giant corporation after another, but I guess that’s better than the "David Sarnoff Award for Individual Achievement"… The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced
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