Passed from Chiarina Four jobs I’ve had: Waiter/barman/kitchen porter, MP’s dogsbody, wine vendor, games writer.Four places I’ve lived: Didsbury, Bath Spa, Oxford, London; in fact, that’s your lot. Four places I’d like to be right now: Hmph; a boat on a lake, a snowed-in cottage with a roaring stove, an ancient library packed with bestiaries
Atomic Blast Photos “Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast – the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.”
The Man Who Couldn’t Blog: Bridge: “And I told her it was cool, that all my friends, they had blogs, too. Everyone my age had a blog. And she said that thing—you know what I mean. She said that thing moms are supposed to say. She said, ‘Well, if everyone your age jumped off a…’
Recent Photos. Originally uploaded by Hot Grill. Ho-hum. Just some recent shots I’m reasonably happy with. Surely it will change…
From meat.rtf: “‘They’re made out of meat.’ ‘Meat?’ ‘Meat. They’re made out of meat.’ ‘Meat?’ ‘There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.’ ‘That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to
catapult magazine: “Top Ten re: angels/transformersby Henry Kammer We know about angels. Those of us who know about Transformers, let us acknowledge one another. Parallels exist between the imagined and semi-imagined worlds of Transformers and Angels. First, both parties have labeled hierarchies: choirs for angels, vocations for Transformers. Second, both wage war for the sake
YouTube – Brokeback to the Future Another trailer mash-up similar to The Shining as rom-com, which we saw last year and this year’s Sleepless in Seattle as horror. Via BoingBoing, of course.
iheartguts.com Hai! Cutesy pictures of organs, aw…
Wired 13.11: My Bionic Quest for Bol?ro: “My hearing is no longer limited by the physical circumstances of my body. While my friends’ ears will inevitably decline with age, mine will only get better.” Michael Chorost is totally deaf and loves Ravel’s Bolero. Having had a cochlear implant, he decided to see how far he
Google Gulp: “Think fruity. Think refreshing.Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink™ technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past