August 2007
26 posts
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Book — £6.70
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Hello. Welcome to my squash cave.
The urban surface of London is no longer interesting enough for the ultra-rich; they’re thus building downward. As the Times reported this past weeked: A Roman bath, a cinema for two dozen friends, even a subterranean tennis court – the super-rich are transforming their London homes, even if it means digging dozens of feet undergound.The article goes on to describe how many of...
TV dates for sept/oct →
Links: Flash in GE Windows only for now; Metropix;...
No embedded video for Mac, Linux for now: The KML 2.2 reference documentation notes that “In Google Earth 4.2, video is supported” and goes on to show sample code for embedding YouTube video in a placemark. Unfortunately, word from informed people is that only the Windows version of Google Earth comes with the requisite embedded Flash player. “Mac & Linux do not have this,...
3 Bed newly refurbished to a very high standard ...
Newly refurbished to a very high standard 3 double bedrooms reception room fitted with plasma Tv separate fully fitted kitchen modern bathroom with shower access to roof terrace and shared garden easy parking must see really is a fab flat (via jobby’s shared items in Google Reader)
GIS, Landsat, and Public Data
By Peter Brantley Google has announced new integration between two of their most popular products, Google Earth and Google Book Search. My Radar colleague Brady Forrest has eloquently discussed these features. This is wonderful, and a step toward truly integrative functionality among diverse sets of content. But as we witness this, it is worth considering what helped get us here, particularly in...
Essential Electronics for Software Folk →
Alien (as in, the alien from the movie ALIEN) made...
Xeni Jardin:
Scott Beale blogs,
Till Nowak has created a masterpiece “Salad”, a fantastic digital image of Alien made out of vegetables. His tribute to HR Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.Link (via jobby’s shared items in Google Reader)
Proof that cassingles really were evil
My fellow nerds, the moment we’ve waited more than two decades for has apparently arrived. Soundwave has arrived. He really transforms. And he really plays music.
(via jobby’s shared items in Google Reader)
Holy Crap This is the Best Thing You'll See...
I love Petra Haden. I love Journey. What would be better than Petra Haden doing an acapella version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin”? How about Petra Haden doing an acapella version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” with an utterly insane video to accompany it: Thanks to Karen Meisner for pointing this out to me. It’s scary how well...
An Excellent Future It Was
This man designed Skylab. Think about that. (via jobby’s shared items in Google Reader)
///shigabooks.com/// →
Genius comic about a hard-as-nails library detective
::thisismattfractiondotcom:: David Simon on The... →
‘He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden.’
Today we learn Sicilian Defense. | MetaFilter →
Giant Robot Warriors
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The Separation (Gollancz S.F.)
Book — £3.99
Christopher Priest excels at rethinking SF themes, lifting them above genre expectations into his own tricky, chilling, metaphysically dangerous territory. The Separation suggests an alternate history lying along a road not taken in World War II. But there are complications. In 1999, history author Stuart Gratton is intrigued by a minor mystery of the European war which...
Fairyland (Gollancz S.F.)
Book — £3.44
Having already made the final shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award with his SF novels Eternal Light and Pasquale’s Angel, Paul McAuley finally won this coveted prize with Fairyland. The title’s hint of fey fantasy is blackly ironic: this is a streetwise cyberpunk future, replete with gene-hacking, instant designer drugs, and mind-warping viruses that...
jobby: is a streetwise pimp with a hybrid pimpmobile.
Scarlet Traces
Book — £3.97
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Leviathan (2000 Ad)
Book — £6.43
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John Tokash’s Blog →
Have Some Music 8/2/07
“Slave to Love,” Bryan Ferry:
The song we played as our first dance at our wedding reception. At the very end it segued into “Head Like a Hole” by Nine Inch Nails. Because it was our wedding, and we could do whatever the Hell we wanted. And that’s what we wanted. (via jobby’s shared items in Google Reader)
Something inspired from Richard Cheese
Hat-tip to Jena6, who just pointed me to this in the “White singers, black songs” comment thread: (via jobby’s shared items in Google Reader)