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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Idiots in Space
Thinking Machinima
Home page of Paul Marino a producer of machinima including the excellent ‘I’m Still Seeing Breen’ which synchronises clips from Half Life 2 to ‘So Cold’ by Breaking Benjamin
It can be downloaded from this site or viewed online via You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkOvoD-y0vQ
“Machinima is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.”
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/Latimer,Ridley,Cranmer.htm
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Burning Bishops, Oxfordshire Style
An intriguing concept, but I don’t think that the immolation of heretical clerics provides the answer to our future energy needs.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00003872-159C-1498-959C83414B7F0000
Cryogenic, superconducting conduits could be connected into a “SuperGrid” that would simultaneously deliver electrical power and hydrogen fuel
From the page:
“It is not at all clear, moreover, how well today’s infrastructure could support the rapid adoption of hybrid vehicles that draw on electricity or hydrogen for part of their power. And because the power system must continuously match electricity consumption with generation, it cannot easily accept a large increase in the unpredictable and intermittent power produced from renewable wind, ocean and solar resources.
We are part of a growing group of engineers and physicists who have begun developing designs for a new energy delivery system we call the Continental SuperGrid. We envision the SuperGrid evolving gradually alongside the current grid, strengthening its capacity and reliability. Over the course of decades, the SuperGrid would put in place the means to generate and deliver not only plentiful, reliable, inexpensive and “clean” electricity but also hydrogen for energy storage and personal transportation.”
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy
It’s about time we got the Hydrogen Economy going in earnest, once we do we can let the Middle East sort out it’s own problems.
Daves Mythical Creatures
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/index.html
From the page:
“Description
A fish that appears like a bishop. This idea may be based on the belief that everything on land has a corresponding creature in the sea, or may have been a fitting description for an unfamiliar creature that was caught. Also called a Bishop Fish.
Might be… a giant squid. Squids have heads shaped like a bishop, and it is not uncommon for them to be the size of a man. see: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
Described By: One such creature was seen of the coast of Poland in 1531.
In a reported Medieval legend, a Sea Bishop was captured alive in a fishing net in the 13th century. When it was brought to the king, the Sea Bishop begged to be set free. It was brought back to the sea, and before diving into the water it made the sign of the cross.”
Satellite Technologies Detect Uplift in the Yellowstone Caldera
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/2006/uplift.html
Another informative piece that should be read together with this:
http://www.snopes.com/science/volcano.asp
DVD Reviewer – Screenshot Image Archive
…and this is the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Blackadder_episodes
airuless favorite websites – StumbleUpon
Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us – Katyusha &Qassam Rockets
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/q0279.shtml
Informative answers to the questions:
“Where do the Katyusha missiles used to attack Israel come from?
What exactly is a Qassam rocket?”
Katyusha Rockets, Soviet Style
The Bread-and-butter-fly & Illustration by John Tenniel to chapter 3, “Through the Looking Glass,”
Page not found | Home Office
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/new-powers-paper.pdf
The Home Office, twinned with Mordor.
Struan Robertson, editor of http://www.out-law.com/ the IT and e-commerce legal site for Pinsent Masons, said: “The Government has a challenge on its hands to write a law that balances its proposal to punish people and organisations for crimes that it cannot prove with the safeguards in the European Convention of Human Rights, notably the right to a fair trial.”
Homepage – www.nearingzero.net
Back by popular demand…
Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes
This week:
Gemini: 22 May-21 June:
Paving stones and tinned fish look set to play a significant part in your life next Saturday afternoon. That would be the effect of Pluto, the planet of patio redesign, entering Capricorn, the sign of cat food.
Lucky confectionery: Spangles (Olde English flavour)
The Stumbleupon groups that I moderate, namely:
http://china.group.stumbleupon.com/
and
http://second-life.group.stumbleupon.com/
have been getting off-topic postings or …
from persons who are probably…
In the immortal words of the Cybermen…
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Bow Street bows out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5169614.stm
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798)
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940)
Casanova, Oscar Wilde or Jeffrey Archer.
Which is the odd one out?
They all appeared at Bow Street Magistrates court which closes today, but only Casanova was let off.
Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett (January 6, 1946 – July 7, 2006)
Syd Barrett, the troubled founding member of Pink Floyd, has died aged 60, after living the life of a recluse for the last 30 years.
A source close to the band, who did not want to be named, said Barrett died on Friday. Media reports say complications from diabetes were the cause.
Barrett’s bizarre on-stage antics in the late 1960s were linked to his experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and he left the band in 1968.
The singer, songwriter and guitarist, who wrote the bulk of Pink Floyd’s earliest music, has been credited with helping shape its progressive sound and influencing artists including David Bowie.
He wrote most of the songs on Pink Floyd’s first album “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, which was a hit in Britain, and also worked on “A Saucerful of Secrets”, released in 1968.
Barrett issued his first solo album, “The Madcap Laughs”, in 1970, with backing from members of Pink Floyd and Soft Machine, but his involvement in music had ended by the mid-1970s and he has lived the life of a recluse ever since.
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Poisson-avion
sheep red lobster reno at e-sheep.com
http://www.e-sheep.com/apocamon/
The Book of Revelations, irreverantly portrayed in the style of a comic graphic novel. Informative if you like Christian eschatology, but as a previous reviewer wrote “likely to offend the spiritually reverent.”
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/06/usb_missile_launcher/
“The desktop deployment system comes pre-loaded with three foam rockets ready to be triggered by punching a virtual version of the infamous red button. You control the direction and angle of attack with your mouse.
One click and – foom! – your officemates are toast.
Unless they get you first.”
Featured Artist: Barclay Shaw
http://www.artie.com/cm/art/artists/barclayshaw/neuromancer.html
“Neuromancer
This was done for the Phantasia Press edition of William Gibson’s classic novel. The cyberspace reflected in the store window integrates itself into the anarchistic street scene.”
What is the Apple IIGS? & Home
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/game_pages/neuromancer.html
A updated version of this game with the Havoc Physics Engine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havok_%28software%29
now that would be awesome.
