Archive for June, 2007

Kahuku Marconi Wireless Station, O’ahu, Hawaii

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

The Marconi Wireless Station at Kahuku on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
Long ago, before my grandfather was born, a young Italian named Guglielmo Marconi developed a process of communicating without the aid of land-line telegraph cables. The birth of wireless telegraphy was embraced by the British during their Second Boer War, but […]

Inside a Titan 1 Missile Base

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Titan bases contain over 2,500 feet of underground passages, built to withstand a nuclear attack as close as 3,000 feet away (photo copyright Jon Haeber).
Over 1/2-mile of underground passageways; three 150-foot-deep launch silos; PCBs, lead paint, zinc, cadmium, mercury — it’s a toxic soup, stagnant for over 40 years.

Photo courtesy SiloWorld.com
In 1962, these gigantic […]

The Transnational Hunt for a Windows Wallpaper

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

The hunt came to an end for writer Nick Tosches, who finally discovered that photographer Peter Burian of Ontario, Canada was behind the famous Windows XP background: Autumn (c) Peter K. Burian. Visit Peter’s incredible collection of images, at http://www.peterkburian.com

Geography is sometimes right in front of you — especially if you work in a […]

 
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