March 2012
54 posts
Meanwhile, at Death Robot Labs
Talented quad-rotor helicopters get their musical Bond on!
February 2012
53 posts
Hi everyone. I'm here to hurt you with a video.
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Hi here's something dumb that I liked.
The Parallax View Montage
In honor of today’s news about creepy Stratfor activity, here’s a classic bit of 1960s paranoia: the mind control montage from The Parallax View.
Communitas: “Ric Porreca, 53, senior vice... →
communitas:
“Ric Porreca, 53, senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer [of the University of Colorado at Boulder], retired on Feb. 28, 2011, and was rehired to the same post on April 1, 2011. He’s now eligible for roughly $500,000 in combined CU salary and pension payouts for working the equivalent…
Video: Polar Bears versus Robots
Next, we blow up a whale.
It’s the end of the war, you’re burdened with tons of metallic sodium, and there’s an attractive lake nearby. Mr. Wizard, what shall we do?
Hat tip to Derek Lowe who quite properly put this in his “how not to do it” category.
But I’d do it.
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...”
– Thomas Mann (via ilovereadingandwriting)
“The meaning of books lies before them and not behind: it is in us. A book is not...”
– Richard Howard, “A Consideration of the Writings of Emily Dickinson” (via invisiblestories)
The Strandbeest approaches.
Theo Jansen makes new life forms, wind-powered wanderers.
He also sells kits with which to make smaller models of his creations. Here’s the latest.
Go buy DVDs and models and stuff. It’s mind-blowing.
Overheard in SF today
Dude #1: Fuck, I was so high last night.
Dude #2: No, you weren't.
Dude #1: You have no idea. Just so high, man.
Dude #2: Please stop talking like that.
Dude #1: So high, man. You know what I did?
Dude #2: No.
Dude #1: I was so high last night that I shaved off my eyebrow.
Dude #2 [Pausing to look at Dude #1, who clearly has both eyebrows]: No, dude, you have two eyebrows.
Dude #1: I know, isn't that fucking weird man???? I'm so high.
Dude #2: Shut up.
