“The Transcendent Pig is a CD player that walks on three mechanical legs! It has a built-in alarm clock and can be used to deter muggers.” …Or so says The…
“Two Columbia University scientists have come up with a computer-based way to extract detailed information from the fleeting images of the world mirrored on the curved surface of the eye.”…
Okay, listen. I love what Peter Jackson has done over the past five years or so. But there comes a time when you have to say “All right, hold it…
Next week when the book’s finished. How to turn your iPod into a universal remote!
Virus “harnessed to kill cancers” The virus lacks a gene viruses normally use to disguise themselves so they can sneak into the cell unnoticed. Normal cells can recognise they are…
King Arthur in Fifteen Minutes
New scans of some of the original film shot on the Apollo 11 mission have been made available at the Project Apollo Image gallery. Images identified with the prefix AS11-40…
Today Stephen Hawking dropped by the Seventeenth International Conference on Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, and had this to say: The Euclidean path integral over all topologically trivial metrics can…
How far in or out of synch are the guys Teresa Nielsen Hayden talks about here as regards our European colors, I wonder? And do we have our own version…
Find out. And have a kebab while you’re waiting.
They have more to say, obviously, but once again I’m reduced to “Ooooo.”
“It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail. A chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent…
Wonder what Omi would make of this… “The warrior monks of China’s Shaolin temple have applied to trademark their name in more than 80 countries, Chinese state media says. “The…
The first and roughest version of the Kingdom in Twilight trailer was out and linked to here, but (it turns out) iMDB jumped the gun in releasing it: so I’m…
“The Dirty Fecker, a 24-foot motor launch, was towed safely to Dun Laoghaire Harbour in the early hours of this morning after breaking down off Greystones, Co Wicklow while on…
Or so I hear.
Oooooooo. “Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with a variety of materials in…
Once upon a time, I wrote a book that wasn’t published. (And I mean only once: this has never happened to any other of my books, before or since.) Now,…
It had to happen. Florigene, a company owned by Suntory of Japan, has lifted from delphiniums and other such blue flowers the gene responsible for their color, and inserted it…
“The archdruid of Wales has called for England’s most famous landmark to be returned to Wales.” (The bluestone from which the sarsens were originally quarried has been traced back to…
From the Hollywood Reporter: “The Top Ten Things Michael Moore Did Right with ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′”
Isn’t this lovely? The Cassini probe took the image yesterday. From the team leader at CICLOPS — the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (Now that’s an acronym: they don’t…
The Meatrix.
From Ben Hammersley, via Warren Ellis’s crazed and delightful blog Die Puny Humans: “Is there a bit of film, television or music that you’d really like to have, but which…