ETB's World of Ideas: Essays

ENTERTAINMENT

Major geographical error on common gag in many cartoons
Rooting for the Bad Guys
Cartoon Network playing live action; Boomerang playing new shows
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
Complete filmography
NY/LA: Mirror TV markets?; Ch. 1
Battle of the GHOSTBUSTERS! ("Real" vs "Original")
Tad Ghostal goes Postal!
PacCube

SEPARATE ARTICLES

TONTO: Unique production style
Super Mario

•Trivia: the arcade and cartoon versions

Filmation, the much maligned staple of Saturday Morning TV
The Daffy/Porky—Groovie Goolies pairup (with full synopsis)

Rap; Where did we go wrong; and reaction to Diallo

GENERAL INTERESTS

The transition of the urban scape to the JETSONS
LA Pacific Electric Subway
NY-Springfield by local bus
Flowers brands; Shake Cakes, Drakes, UPC Codes link, etc.
Ridgewood Rant
RGB LED's
Willy B map (combination bus and Subways in "the Map" style)
COMPO Bus
7 segment display

MATH, SCIENCE and TECHNICALITIES

Alternate Hexadecimal codes
Metric Time
When did the new century/millenium begin?
Definitions of "Fortune/Luck" and "Money"
Division between man's soul and spirit: the 12 primary emotions

Color mixing and perception
"Great Zero" (Lowest common multiple of all numbers from 1 to 100)
Alternate negative number system
Why is the "powers of ten" line asymmetrical?
Grownup name of "googol"
How many sides does a circle have?
Space & Time
Working definition of space & time
What really is Time Travel?
Multidimensional Time
Bending of time: why faster than light travel would compromise causality

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