Rube Goldberg

Jim Rodnunsky dies at 54; developer of Cablecam system used in sporting events, Hollywood films

2011-06-16 00:00:00

Filmmaker Jim Rodnunsky took a backward (and face-down) approach to developing Cablecam, among the most revolutionary innovations in the history of sports broadcasting. Rodnunsky's system of using a cat's cradle of synthetic ropes to suspend a remote-...

Meal Ticket

2011-10-28 16:37:20

'America's Got Talent' recap: 'If you're gonna blunder,' go big

2011-08-03 16:36:52

'America's Got Talent' recap: Second semifinals, tough call

2011-08-31 16:36:58

Book review: 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut

2011-01-30 00:00:00

While Mortals Sleep Unpublished Short Fiction Kurt Vonnegut, foreword by Dave Eggers Delacorte: 272 pp., $27 It was in the 1950s that Kurt Vonnegut, then in his early 30s, quit his job as a publicity man for the research department of General Electric...

'Modern Family' recap: The time traveler's wife (and kids)

2010-09-23 04:35:44

Cover story: The fine art of Syyn

2011-01-19 16:36:30

Cameron Anderson designs 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for SCR

2011-01-22 16:32:45

A partner against crime

2009-10-31 00:00:00

Compared with selecting a new Los Angeles police chief, electing the U.N.'s secretary-general -- or, for that matter, a pope -- is a streamlined exercise in political minimalism. If you were searching for a mechanical metaphor to characterize the...

OK Go at the Fonda tonight

2010-05-21 16:35:41

If I ran the Oscars: Rick Trembles

2010-02-15 12:05:29

In this interview series, we ask famous free thinkers to recast the Oscars in their own image. Let's give a big Oscar night welcome to Canadian cartoonist, film critic and filmmaker Rick Trembles. Rick Trembles' illustrated movie review column Motion...

Michael Hiltzik: Schools and the future of California

2009-11-18 21:33:51

Wesley Kunin, 12, of Marshal Fundamental School, drops a marble into the beginning of a Rube Goldberg machine he and his team made at Pasadena City College where Caltech students mentor Pasadena middle school students in the weeklong InnoWorks Summer Science Camp.

2012-08-17 00:00:00

Film: "The Final Destination" (4) The gory details: While attempting to burn a cross on another character's front lawn, Carter becomes the victim of a Rube Goldberg -style series of events that leave him dragged by his truck, burned, blown up and decapitated, all to the soundtrack of War's "Why

2011-08-10 12:29:46

Dibs Rube Goldberg Contraption See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

2010-07-27 03:35:32