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November 17, 2010
Station Ident: Paul Sizer
This week's station idents are provided by artist and designer Paul Sizer.
Paul Sizer's graphic novel LITTLE WHITE MOUSE is being re-released. Go here for details on how to instruct your local comics store to order it for you.
November 16, 2010
OSBORN #1
OSBORN, from Marvel Comics, is a serial by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, neither of whom are strangers to this page. In the back of #1, available in comics shops from Weds (North America) and Thurs (UK), is a short story by myself and Jamie McKelvie. You might like it. I've read the whole of #1 and it's very good. Which you would expect me to say, I know, but it's a clever bugger of a piece, and you should read it.
Links for 2010-11-15
"…people are really OK with this: ?mp3s should be free and musicians get paid doing concerts? ? this cuts out the entire art of creation in the studio! Completely and utterly! This whole art which is completely responsible for everything from You Really Got Me through Sergeant Pepper through Lee ?Scratch? Perry to any great record you want, especially electronic music which is completely dependent on it because it?s not performance linked necessarily."
(tags:music rant culture )
'Chaogates' hold promise for the semiconductor industry
"In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates."
(tags:tech computing )
EaaS: Non-rival Goods vs. Rival Goods – Global Guerrillas
"Our current economy doesn't differentiate between rival and non-rival goods. Nearly everything is sold or traded as if it is a rival good, even though the transactional volume of non-rival goods is starting to dwarf the trade in rival goods."
(tags:money )
notebook 17nov10
* "Printed patent drawing for a flying machine invented by W. F. Quimby, 1869"
(via Public Domain Images Online) (Xplanes)
Clifford Hoyt, age 31, suffered serious injuries in an automobile accident in 1999. After he regained consciousness, he told a terrified nurse that he had died and visited Hell. He expounded on the tortures and anguish he experienced in frightening detail. He refused psychological treatment and was released.
Several weeks later, Hoyt's neighbors complained to their landlord that strange music was playing in his apartment at all hours of the night. Upon investigating, the building's owner found Clifford in this condition. Mr. Hoyt was still quite lucid and protested when the landlord attempted to call the police. Concerned for the damage done to his property, he took photographs of the apartment, of which the image above is an example. He left and contacted Mr. Hoyt's family, who contacted authorities.
Clifford claimed that demons from Hell were still trying to capture him. He explained that his body would burn incessantly unless he played music to scare the demons away. He would only leave the house for short periods of time to get minimal supplies, including large blocks of ice to soothe the burning he felt as he tried to sleep.
Doctors attribute Clifford's actions to brain damage suffered in the accident. He currently resides in a mental rehabilitation facility in Maryland."
Source: thereisnogodinspace
* kateoplis:
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In 1820 a little-known architect named Thomas Wilson proposed a plan for "a metropolitan cemetery on a scale commensurate with the necessities of the largest city in the world, embracing prospectively the demands of centuries,sufficiently capacious to receive five million of the dead, where they may repose in perfect security, without interfering with the comfort, the health, the business, the property, or the pursuits of the living." What he proposed, in short, was a massive pyramid, its base covering eighteen acres and its height well above that of St. Peter's Cathedral-a metropolitan sepulcher,a skyscraper for the dead.
The "Steampunk Batman" artists' challenge thread on my me...
The "Steampunk Batman" artists' challenge thread on my message board really is incredibly funny.
Station Ident: Paul Sizer
This week's station idents are provided by artist and designer Paul Sizer.
Paul Sizer's graphic novel LITTLE WHITE MOUSE is being re-released. Go here for details on how to instruct your local comics store to order it for you.
November 15, 2010
T-shirt Of The Week: SATAN
This is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull regularly in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I've said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana's brain explodes.
So, at the top and the middle of the month, I'll post the new shirt here, and you can peer at it more at http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic.
This one expresses our love of strange people in red suits and the season of goodwill. Sincerely.
Anyway. I present to you : T-Shirt Of The Week: SATAN:
We also now offer, at the same link, a great many perennial "legacy" items, which will be added to on a largely random basis. For instance:
Thank you for your kind attention.
Links for 2010-11-15
"Scientists in Japan are the first to have succeeded in converting information into free energy in an experiment that verifies the "Maxwell demon" thought experiment devised in 1867." TURNS INFORMATION INTO ENERGY. FUCK YEAH.
(tags:sci fuck+yeah )
Earth's dust tail points to alien planets
"Did you know that the Earth has a dust tail? The Spitzer Space Telescope sailed right through it a few months ago, giving researchers a clear idea of what it looks like. That could be a big help to planet hunters trying to track down alien worlds."
(tags:space )
Robo-op marks new world first for heart procedure
"The world's first remote heart procedure, using a robotic arm alongside 3-D mapping, is due to take place at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester."
(tags:tech med )
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