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August 7, 2009
The Fall: Victoria video
*Wow, I never knew there was a Fall steampunk video. It's got Brixie in full-scale 19th century crinoline drag.
*Brix gave up music and runs a trendy boutique in London now. The past isn't dead, the past isn't even past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brix_Smith
The Wikipedia list of James Bond gadgets
*The Bond franchise is an imaginary-gadget industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_gadgets
What if the money's not coming back?
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/07/bad-news-what-if-the-money's-not-coming-back.aspx
*No newspapers, much weaker and feebler TV, and many fewer cars. Most of those cars will be ancient clunkers. Or they;ll be cars that you never heard of, because it's become impossible to advertise the cars, due to the loss of the newspapers and the TV.
*Besides, cars just cost too much for most people. Can't get loans. Price of fuel unstable. Not worth it.
*Talking about this in terms of "bad ne
The considerable charm of Milan
*This text describes the situation in Milan five hundred years ago. You know how much the town has changed since then, in this particular regard? It's changed zilch, boyo.
Text-to-movies
*This "text-to-movies" mashup lacks any normal cartoon pacing, but you might find it worth your while, as it goes into some extremely non-cartoon-like spaces. Almost a Flarf thing happening here.
*You probably don't want this thing loudly reciting itself at work, especially if you have a sickening dead-end job in retail, or in a roadside diner someplace.
http://www.fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=425&mode=one
*Author "Miracle Jones" describes his creative effort here:
"As F. Scott Fitzgerald always u
Swaparama at Favela Chic in London
*They're exchanging clothes, for free, in public, while dancing.
*No, really, look.
http://www.myspace.com/swaparamarazzmatazz
The French admire Sarkozy for falling over
*I really don't know what to make of this. It's got me scratching my head. Do you think Gordon Brown's popularity would shoot up twelve points if he had some heart tremor in London? I dunno, maybe.
*I get it that there would be a sympathy factor, but what's all this stuff about the "courage" and the "closeness to the French people"? The guy's got beaucou
August 6, 2009
Wingnut attacks on the wingnut posts
*I've hired a new guy to manage the hundreds of comments here on BEYOND THE BEYOND. Actually, our budget here is mighty shallow, so I didn't exactly "hire" him. He works for free. That's because he's underage. He's a 13-year-old cyberpunk sci-fi fan from Italy, but he's a regular reader of the blog here, and seems to have a lot of spare time on his hands.
*Italo's brief is to look at all the comments, and to instantly and permanently delete "anything that looks stupid."
*There will be no appea
Medical Augmented Reality
*This scene with the live exposure of the interior of an injured ankle also takes place in my new novel, THE CARYATIDS. The first third of the book swarms with "mediation" and "augments."
*Well, there you go, then. Typical.
Sixteen war machines by Leonardo da Vinci
*In some alternate universe, these silly things all worked and the Milanese unified all of Europe by 1550 AD.
http://www.thetoyzone.com/2009/blog/15-da-vinci-war-machines/
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