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Space Gherkin

Sir Norman Foster — whom I believe is technically Baron Foster of Thames Bank? — is reportedly having his architectural firm pitch to ESA's Aurora programme, to "investigate adapting materials found in space for building purposes, using data from the original Apollo moon landing, and new information gathered by robot vehicles on Mars. Among the objectives would be building permanent structures on the moon."

A spokesman at the London headquarters of Foster and Partners confirmed "there is a...

No-One Answers The Adverts In His Mind

You All Know Billy Bragg, Of Course

Because you are educated people. Right?

Hard Times Of Old England

I saw The Imagined Village do this on Saturday night. Here's a take of them doing it in '08. And that is indeed Billy Bragg, who showed up on Saturday night wearing a Pearly suit — or, as he put it, his ancestral garb. We have similar backgrounds. I kind of want one.

It's an old song, retooled and made contemporary. Which is, after all, the folk tradition. These are living songs.

NO HERO #7 Preview

On release from Weds.  Preview now at bleedingcool.

Links for 2009-09-21

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Phenomena And Occurrences

A Ghost Box film:

Links for 2009-09-18

Jedi church founder thrown out of Tesco for refusing to remove his hood left 'emotionally humiliated' | Mail Online
"But Tesco hit back in the spirit of the epic space saga and claimed that the three most well known Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies - Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker - all appeared in public without their hoods."
(tags:cult dickhead )BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Neolithic carving raises eyebrows
"A remote Neolithic burial mound on an Orkney island may...

REMAKE/REMODEL: Black Orchid

Once every week or so on my message board, I run a game for the artists. I name some ancient comics or pulp character, and tell them to reinvent it for the 21st Century. This week, I called out Black Orchid (the original character from 1944 rather than the semi-recent DC character), which has the following entry on a public-domain characters website:

Glamorous Diana Dawn, district attorney Richard Day's secretary, is - unbeknownst to him - masquerading as the mysterious female sleuth the...