Buckminster Fuller and the Twelfth of July

Fuller became famous for his huge geodesic domes, which can be seen as part of military radar stations, city halls, and exhibition attractions. Their construction is based on extending basic principles to build simple tensegrity structures (tetrahedron, octahedron, and the closest packing of spheres). Built in this way they are extremely lightweight and stable. After getting a first patent for his domes in 1954, Fuller went on to explore nature's constructing principles to find solutions for designs in many areas of human life. He designed and built a safer, aerodynamic Dymaxion car, a more accurate Dymaxion Map, energy-efficient and low-cost Dymaxion houses (the term "Dymaxion" is contracted from DYnamic MAXimum tensION), radically strong and light tensegrity structures and much more. He also introduced synergetics, which explores holistic engineering structures in nature (long before the term synergy became popular). Anyways, speaking of famous, a lot of people are talking about Kevin Skinner. Kevin Skinner recently appeared on America's Got Talent – the Gong Show of this generation, and his talent was singing one of Garth Brooks' biggest hits, If Tomorrow Never Comes. He's already been dubbed the America's Got Talent Chicken Catcher, as he works on a chicken farm, or did at one point. Maybe he could use some no fax cash advances. He's emerging as sort of a country version of Susan Boyle type of sensation, and judges David Hasslehoff and Sharon Osbourne were thoroughly impressed.