You understand that it’s me versus Tom Cruise for the soul of the world, right?

Pick a side.

• HEALING AMERICA
  a NEXTWAVE fan community on Livejournal
  (tags: work)
• U B U W E B – Film & Video: Peter Greenaway
  The FOUR AMERICAN COMPOSERS films.
  (tags: video music)

The Kristamas Klousch image below is entitled “These Days.” And that set something nagging in my mind, I knew I knew a piece of music of that title, with this kind of mood. Took me ten minutes. I was thinking of “These Days..” by Her Space Holiday, a long instrumental which, by minute 4, sounds like a million steel-winged angels in flight.

I therefore leave you tonight with These Days, twice:

“These Days” – Her Space Holiday

(all mp3s deleted after seven days, review purposes only, write if you need them taken down etc etc)

Jhayne Holmes updates.

Not as good an opening as PARANOIA AGENT, but still visually interesting, with film footage and computer imaging intercut with the anime and artificial distressing…

Senator John Kerry, who lost to George W Bush in 2004, will not run for US president in 2008, reports say.

Headline of the day:

Exciting New Global Pandemic Promises Universal Doom

(P1300161)

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Originally uploaded by Sannybot.

(on Flickr)

The K Tom-Tom

Originally uploaded by roseandolive.

(from the phone)

Novelist Cherie Priest brings analysis of last night’s State Of The Union presidential address in America:

Are you shitting me? That maniac is so far removed from reality that we here on planet earth look like ants to him. He is shitting us. He’s totally shitting us. He is shitting us, each and every one. He would shit us all individually if he could, but time constraints being what they are, he must shit us en masse. Just be aware: you, personally, have been shitted. This guy, he really knows how to shit people. If he were a martial artist, he’d be Shit-Yu — and his shit-fu would be strong.

Jesus H. Christ.

The shit. The shit.

My family have just gone away for two weeks. You may commence the sexual propositioning now. No furries.

Nice cover to the comics iteration of anime series SCI-FI HARRY:

I was obsessed with this title sequence for months, back when the show was being serialised…

(And it’s nice that all the video sites’ content has matured to the point where I can find and store this stuff here in my outboard brain)

• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Flying dinos had bi-plane design
  A fresh analysis of an early feathered fossil dinosaur suggests that it dropped its hind legs below its body, adopting a bi-plane-like form
  (tags: history)
• Penicillin shield could help implants fight infection
  Medical implants that naturally resist infection could someday be made using a new method for attaching antibiotics to Teflon.
  (tags: bodymod med)

Jamais Cascio’s eschatalogical taxonomy:

(i. am learning peacefulness)

The photographer, “Massive Defeat,” just added me on Flickr, so I took a look at their shots, and there are some amazing shots from active duty in Iraq. Here’s a sample:

Originally hidden outside the base, all these MiGs were towed here in 2003. Now they’re testament to any number of love affairs, many of which are likely over. LSA Anaconda, Balad, Iraq, 24Nov2006.

(Towed.)