Techie Manager

c/o Boing Boing and Wikipedia:

Term
Period

Puritan Generation
1588-1617

Puritan Awakening
1621–1649

Cavalier Generation
Glorious Generation
Enlightenment Generation
Awakening Generation
1618-1648
1648-1673
1674-1700
1701–1723

First Great Awakening
1727–1746

Liberty Generation
Republican Generation
Compromise Generation
1724–1741
1742–1766
1767–1791

Second Great Awakening
1790–1844

Transcendentalist Generation
Transcendental Generation
Gilded Generation
Progressive Generation
1789–1819
1792–1821
1822–1842
1843–1859

Third Great Awakening
1886–1908

Missionary Generation
Lost Generation
Interbellum Generation
G.I. Generation
Greatest Generation
1860–1882
1883–1900
1900–1910
1900–1924
1911–1924

Jazz Age
1918-1929

Beat Generation
Silent Generation
Baby Boomers
1914–1930
1925–1945
*1940s-1960s

Consciousness Revolution
1964–1984

Generation X
MTV Generation
Boomerang Generation
*1960s–1980s
1974–1985
1977–1986

Culture Wars
1980s–present

Generation Y
Internet Generation
New Silent Generation
*1970s–1990s
*1980s-1990s
*1990s or 2000s–?

Looks like I’m a Gen X‘er…

This is just fucking pathetic…and it explains a few things about the current state of our nation, too.
From MIT’s Technology Review:
Let’s start by focusing on the positive. In just 17 years, over 50 million people have been added to the rolls of Americans who can understand a newspaper story about science or technology, [...]

From SpaceWeather.com:
Australian astronomer Ray Palmer was photographing the Southern Cross from his observatory in Western Australia on Feb. 19th when a flaming plume cut across the Milky Way. “I had no idea what it was,” he says. “It was moving very slowly and I was able to track it for 35 minutes.”

In mid-apparition the object [...]

Disturbing editorial in the NY Times. And, no, I do not trust our current administration…and I’m not even a liberal…
A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the [...]

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Fascinating article about physicist Lene Hau and her work, care of the Harvard Gazette web site:
Lene Hau has already shaken scientists’ beliefs about the nature of things. Albert Einstein and just about every other physicist insisted that light travels 186,000 miles a second in free space, and that it can’t be speeded-up or slowed down. [...]

I came very close to buying a Playstation II, just so I could play Guitar Hero. Looks like there’s no need, as it’s coming out for the Wii.
From The Tanooki:
That’s right, during Activision’s conference call on Wednesday, CEO Mike Griffith stated that Guitar Hero will be making it’s way to the Wii:
“The key difference [...]

Very entertaining video of Kevin Smith discussing his bizarre experience writing a script for “Superman Lives”.

From LiveScience:
A trip to the beach means sand between your toes, salt water in your mouth and that aromatic sea air in your nose. But what gives the ocean air that delightful and distinctive smell? Scientists have not known the full story until now.
The smell comes from a gas produced by genes recently identified by [...]

Oh lordy, Turner’s marketing team is stoopid:
Turner Broadcasting acknowledged late this afternoon that the suspicious packages that ignited fears of bombs across Boston today were magnetic lights that were part of an outdoor marketing campaign for an adult cartoon.

Turner was promoting Adult Swim’s animated television show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” in Boston and nine [...]