Hacking the Digital and Social System
Since the first commercial HAM radio equipment appeared on the market, the profile of users has changed dramatically – instead of people who could build HAM units with their own hands, now you had people who had enough money to buy them. Maybe I ...
$9M Carnegie Hill House Is a Sunlit Gem With Literary Cachet
of Dennis. There are stained-glass windows, mahogany woodwork, wood-burning fireplaces, coffered ceilings, and two private gardens, as well as a kosher kitchen, four bedrooms, and a sun room. The result is a dramatic, twenty-foot living room ...
Last Race in Sonoma: Twilight for “Top the Cops”
My first day at the track, I pull into a line of cars at the gate: spectators signing in as drivers hand over a list of next of kin and waive away their right to sue should a tire blow out, or the transmission fry, or the wheels not quite catch and the ...
What It's Like to Live in This Smart, Energy-Efficient Home of the Future
Inside there is a wooden dining table and chairs, a taupe sectional sofa, a 65-inch built-in flat screen TV in one living room wall and a white kitchen with silver appliances. But the house, on the University of California campus in Davis, is a cradle ...
Jimmy Carter's Early Life on a Georgia Farm
Photo: Jeff Herr for The . July 7 It was a struggle to control all the weeds and grass that choked the crops when we couldn't plow. Everyone in my family was usually in bed before 8 p.m. I would lie down in front of the ...
Ike Turner: Why I Beat Tina
I went to L.A., where I called R&B legend Johnny Otis, who happened to be doing a tribute to Ike on his weekly radio show that evening and invited me to the station. Between . At exactly 5 o'clock, a bluish-gray Cadillac Fleetwood pulled to the curb ...
Gold Cup 2015: USA 2-1 Honduras – as it happened
The ball is placed around 25 yards out but it's straight into the wall and USA have won the game. Just. Facebook Twitter Google plus. Share Twitter · Google plus. close. 11.26pm ET 23:26. 90 min+2: That corner took a nice chunk of time off the ...