Or more like "Disasters in General"

Some years ago, I once saw a short marathon of the History Channel's Modern Marvels series, called "Engineering Disasters." Found them fascinating as they looked at disasters over the centuries, sometimes quite horrible, from an engineering standpoint when possible (sometimes there was no real engineering angle ( Read more... )

First trailer for Civil War era zombie movie . . .

Exit HumanityHow does a man deal with the loss of everything meaningful in his life, and the loss of mankind's humanity amongst chaos and despair? Set in 1870's Tennessee, Exit Humanity is the legend of Edward Young's horrific and dramatic journey through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking ( Read more... )

I know most of you weren't alive at the time, but 25 years ago yesterday a row-home, described as a "bunker" and "compound," housing a group of radicals (which included children) called MOVE, on Osage Ave in West Philadelphia was bombed by Philadelphia Police, a plan OKed by then Mayor Wilson Goode Sr ( Read more... )