With No Paddle
Venn diagrams have had quite a surge of publicity recently, trying to simplify representations of the different supra-national European organisations. I like this one, because it shows how the UK is now currently occupying...
Venn diagrams have had quite a surge of publicity recently, trying to simplify representations of the different supra-national European organisations. I like this one, because it shows how the UK is now currently occupying...
Reverse engineering the mind from a functional decomposition of the brain.. What if you tried to use neuroscience’s current tools to reverse engineer one of the simplest microprocessors, the 1970s-era 6502, and attempt...
So Prince requests medical intervention from Calfornia-based addictions specialist Howard Kornfeld, not licensed to practice medicine in the State of Minnesota. Dr Kornfeld is many hours away, in California. Says can’t see patient immediately....
During World War 2, the Waller Gunnery Trainer was an Oculus ancestor that used film and a lot of operators to create an immersive gunnery simulator experience.
New Massive Attack video with Rosamund Pike weirdly channels classic Sam Neill/Isabelle Adjani ur-hentai schlock triumph, Żuławski‘s Possession Voodoo In My Blood: Possession:
This is the magical time of the year when #SFBay imitates #Ireland: Everything’s green, damp & smells like socks
Reread #Vollmann’s Whores for Gloria: In the windowpanes of bars all around the blue neon Budweiser signs, reflections made cool jungles in which blurs pursued blurs. Remembered reading this with sadly gone #IainBanks in...
Changed car battery in Corolla… and then got locked out by an RFID engine immobilizer and previously unknown alarm system becoming activated after 6 years of stealth. Spent basically half a day figuring out...
One thing I rarely see addressed even in the most pedestrian near-future novels will be the sad, extreme lack of nice sandy beaches in our immediate future. Even before the global sea level rise,...
First suspected Ebola case dies in quarantine in Nigeria after collapsing in the Lagos *International* Airport. On the bright side, as is common with many highly lethal crowd diseases, this strain of Ebola seems...