SF writer Bruce Sterling has some cool photos from the ATLAS pit at CERN. Start here and go "right" in the photostream. If you want to know what it was like when I was at CERN, well, on the surface it was more or less like this. The OPAL detector was smaller than the LHC detectors, but it was still...
Senior moments Wolverine #66 (Marvel/US$2.99) Writer: Mark Millar Artist: Steve McNiven ORIGINS, a six-issue limited series published five years ago, revealed the best-kept (and also most exploited) secret in comic book history – Wolverine’s origin. Then, with Hollywood coming up with movies and...
First buy a house. Its an old, 1930's mid-terrace. It needs some work but for family reasons we want a house. Next realise that you want to be as green as possible. For all sorts of reasons, if nothing else keeping the bills low makes the whole proposition seem saner. That is what we are doing....
Second Look: "THE BLUE AND THE GRAY" (1982) In 1982, CBS television aired a three-part miniseries about the experiences of two families during the Civil War. Sounds familiar? It should, for John Jakes had wrote something similar in three novels between 1982 and 1987 – namely the ”NORTH AND...
Many conference videos uploaded for your viewing pleasure, including some videos who particularly interested me... * Bruno Bonnell ((formerly Infogrames CEO shareholder value destructor)). The Robolution is coming. * Kevin Warwick. More Robolution ((and Cyborgs)) * Bruce Sterling. 2008, Black Swans...
...to start blogging. Situations in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have the Bush Administration looking more powerless and disorganized than ever. If George W et al were traveling a path of intentionality a la Ronald Reagan, one could still fathom...
People in the US are referring to this summer as the "staycation" since a mix of recession, high gas prices and a weak dollar means that most people are staying at home (one evidence is the bumper summer box office which seems to break even last year's stellar record). I'm staying at home since...
Your result for The Steampunk Style Test... The Gadgeteer 32% Elegant, 55% Technological, 43% Historical, 40% Adventurous and 31% Playful! You are the Gadgeteer, the embodiment of steampunk technology. Ironically, many of the things that most define your style are probably too large to easily carry...
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