In a total breach of security, the firm I blogged about yesterday who designed the gargantuan new US Embassy in Iraq, briefly put detailed plans of the Imperial Fortress online today. Link
Month: May 2007
My latest art – Kim Jong Il
I enjoy oil pastels on found pieces of wood. This is an old tabletop I found on the side of the road. cd
Homeland Security Asks Sci Fi Writers for Help
Government seeks sci-fi antiterrorism insight In effort to broaden its thinking about terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is tapping into the thinking of a group of science fiction authors called Sigma, according to USA Today. “We need to look everywhere for ideas, and science fiction writers clearly inform the debate,” said department spokesman…
Do Jesus Freak chicks get more Freaky?
A 19-year-old virgin walks into a bar. He’s got his lucky cross in his pocket and his best jersey on. Please God, he says to himself, let this be the night. He spies a girl sitting at a table—blonde, wholesome-looking, just his type. He sidles up closer to the girl, who is chatting with some…
What is your socioeconomic class?
Find out now. Are you low class? High class? Me? I rank at just about the 55th percentile. Much better than I would have guessed. Link
Imagining the 10th Dimension
Watch this Video This project starts from the unique argument that time really is the fourth spatial dimension. This “new way of thinking about time and space” is not the traditional position of mainstream science (which says that time is not a full dimension, but rather a quality that is overlaid on the other three…
Foster's..not just beer, also a battery?
While we all love breweries, we now have a reason to, other than the obvious. Foster’s is using the waste water left behind from beer to create, among other things, batteries. While this sounds like an idea some drunk guy came up with, the invention came from some scientists in Australia and Germany who worked…
Hot Female Chess Players
this is amazing. Here is the link. (Thanks Brian!)
Timeline for First Major CyberWar- Estonia
Here is the link to the entire article…this is fascinating and if you use the internet (and I know you do) it has relevance to you. cd
MAKE: Microsoft Surface-Multi Touch Table
This is the future…totally awesome and only $5-10K.