Have you seen this?
http://members.cox.net/vaccine/endofworld.swf With the talking countries and the missiles and the blowing up? I love it, it's just so educational.
I did finish the gardening book from the 60s, and it was funny because they kept talking about this new thing called the 'electric lawn mower'. Man I never realized the 60s were so archaic with their human powered push mowers. That's why we need robots, or some sort of lawn cutting turtles so they don't think we're prehistoric in the 2030s.
Currently reading: "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys