Polar Stratospheric Clouds
October 28th, 2006 | photography
Costume Parade Ov Doom
October 28th, 2006 | mobilesignals
I understand that most people are doing their Hallowe’en parties tonight. Hallowe’en isn’t a big deal around here, but I got a new appreciation for the costuming after spending the event in San Francisco a couple of years ago.
Send me photos of your Hallowe’en costumes tonight, to warrene@aol.com. I’ll run my favourite ones here on the site.
links for 2006-10-28
October 28th, 2006 | admin
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On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1; In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have bec
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A 10-minute home movie made by Nazi officers during World War II has been found in a church in rural Devon.
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A Swiss orchestra conductor went on trial again Tuesday for his alleged role in a doomsday cult that lost dozens of members in ritual deaths in France, Switzerland and Canada
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The first known organisms that live totally independently of the sun have been discovered deep in a South African gold mine. The bacteria exist without the benefit of photosynthesis by harvesting the energy of natural radioactivity to create food
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A Detroit man with a history of smashing store windows to grab female mannequins…
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Police have arrested a man who dressed in a gorilla suit and briefly snatched a 5-year-old boy at the B&I Marketplace in Lakewood last summer.
I Am A Hero To The Children, For Fuck’s Sake
October 28th, 2006 | Work
Comic strip UNSHELVED shows my DESOLATION JONES graphic novel making people happy.
(Found by Doug Fort, thanks)
Riding Asteroids
October 28th, 2006 | researchmaterial
One step from this to Kuiper Bedouins, Magdalene…
Burrowing inside an asteroid whose orbit carries it past both the Earth and Mars could protect astronauts from radiation on their way to the Red Planet. The idea is being investigated with funding from NASA.
A small population of asteroids pass by both the Earth and Mars in their orbits. So the idea is that a spacecraft containing Mars-bound astronauts could rendezvous with one of these objects as it goes by the Earth and travel with it until it nears the Red Planet.
In one version of the idea, the astronauts would actually dig a hole in the asteroid, put the spacecraft inside and cover it over with material from the asteroid. Within this protective burrow, the spacecraft would be shielded from cosmic rays during the six- to 10- month journey to Mars.
In a second version, the spacecraft would not contact the space rock. Instead, it would hover nearby, and astronauts or robots would visit it on spacewalks. “You’d have the astronaut actually go to the asteroid and begin to extract material,” Della-Giustina told New Scientist. The material collected could then be brought back and put into a hollow shell surrounding the spacecraft. The shell of rocky debris would make a radiation shield, she says. The plan has some potential hurdles, but nothing that seems to rule it out..
links for 2006-10-27
October 27th, 2006 | Uncategorized
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A "Tower of Babel" device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists.
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If Second Life is a virtual world, a sizable portion of that world is dead. Second Life Ecosystem works to emulate a real world ecosystem in those dead spaces.
Lettie
October 27th, 2006 | music
I’m an absolute sucker for things like “Red.” The sound of beautiful broken girls with smart mouths and bleeding hearts.
links for 2006-10-26
October 26th, 2006 | admin
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Omaha, Nebraska’s elected leaders and police department are urging residents who see violations of their new anti-smoking ordinance to call the 9-1-1 emergency system for an immediate response.
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Sunderland train station was evacuated after a train carrying two nuclear flasks to Sellafield broke down.
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Modafinil pills – known on the drugs scene as “zombies” – are used to treat the rare sleeping disorder narcolepsy. The Ministry of Defence has previously denied testing the drug on troops
German Soldiers Measure Penis With Human Skull
October 26th, 2006 | researchmaterial
The tabloid newspaper Bild, which carried the photos, says they show German troops in Afghanistan in 2003.
On one of the pictures, a soldier is seen holding the skull next to his exposed penis, on another – soldiers pose with the skull on their jeep.
“We can’t use such people in our army,” Bernhard Gertz, head of the main organisation representing German troops, said on ARD television channel. “We must investigate exactly how such degeneration and misbehaviour can happen despite good training and good supervision,” he added.
The Bild newspaper did not say how it had obtained the photographs, nor gave any proof of their authenticity.
It is not clear where the skull in the pictures came from, the newspaper admitted, adding that according to a military source it could have been taken from a mass grave.
Germany has about 2,800 troops stationed in Afghanistan within Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). Last month, the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, voted to extend the mission of the German forces in Afghanistan until October next year because of the worsening security situation there.
Carolyn Turgeon
October 26th, 2006 | people I know
My friend, novelist Carolyn Turgeon, has her new website go live today, decorated by new art from Molly Crabapple.
On Release Today
October 25th, 2006 | Work
PLANETARY #26 and NEXTWAVE #9 are both released in North America today, in the UK and other territories from Thursday.
Buy them, or it’s the Arse Eels for you.
links for 2006-10-25
October 25th, 2006 | Uncategorized
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“cities can be engineered to radiate instability rather than dampen it”
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Darick Robertson reveals the original photos used to create three of the series' main characters
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If demand continues at the current rate, two planets will be needed to meet global demand by 2050. if the world’s population shared the UK’s lifestyle, three planets would be needed to support their needs.
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Graphs and notes on our forthcoming doom.
Site’s Been Down
October 25th, 2006 | admin
The site’s been showing a 500 error occasionally lately, and a lot today. Seems to be a combination of a couple of rogue plug-in scripts and a traffic surge for the Shuttle pics that took my new host by surprise (I’m pretty sure I got hit by Digg today). Things should run smoother now. If you still get 500 errors, drop me a note.
Winter
October 25th, 2006 | music, people I know
DJ Winter looks to have a good set tonight on Sykoradio.net – 8pm-10pm EST. “Crunchier” and “significantly more ‘kick in the guts’ than usual,” she says.
