(Squishy Squishy)

(maggie)

“Search For Delicious” – Panda Bear

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• Blimps to swim through the air like fish
  Blimps steered by artificial muscles may one day swim through the air like fish
  (tags: tech)

I’ve been asked dozens of times every year for decades why the film of BUG JACK BARRON,to be made by Universal, directed by Costa-Gavras, and written by Harlan Ellison, was never made, and why many film-makers have been prevented from making it by the powers that be…

Created by: Mark Leyner & Japhet Asher
Directed by: John Sanborn
Music by: Mark Mothersbaugh

“This short film takes place in 2030 in a command center that is tasked with monitoring (internet) activities for anomalies that could threaten the global economy.”

Lovely imagery in this “news” story:

Mogadishu 26, March.07 ( Sh.M.Network) A mysterious device looking like a satellite or UFO has landed and spotted near buulo burde town in south Somalia.

Villagers report that the device fell five days ago in area which lies forty kilo meters north of Buulo burde town.

The device is occupying in an area of one hundred Meters Square as villagers who spotted this device confirmed to Shabelle Radio.

“In the evening of last Wednesday, a large device flew over our head and moments later, we heard a large sound, BAM” said Ilyas Ali, a villager who lives nearby where this large device has fallen.

Ilyas spoke of the device, telling that in the daylight it glitters and in a nighttime, it turns lights and speaks a strange language which can’t be understood by the villagers.

The impact of the unidentified device has killed a camel which was grazing nearby.

Because of the remote area it fell, news of the device is emerging gradually now despite its fall of five days ago.

(Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Captain Applejack)

“I am a slobbering baboon.”

• Now scientists create a sheep that’s 15% human
  “Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera – which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. “
  (tags: sci)
• Vigilante attack sheep guard British village
  ” Leighterton is protected by 60-year-old retired farmworker Keith Clifford and his herd of “highly-trained” attack sheep. “
  (tags: mad)
• 9/11 remains possibly used on roads
  Debris that may have contained bits of bone from victims of the World Trade Center attacks was used to fill potholes and pave city roads: and apparently there’s a landfill in Staten Island called Fresh Kills!
  (tags: crime)
• Fantastic voyage: From science fiction to reality
  succeeded for the first time in guiding, in vivo and via computer control, a microdevice inside an artery, at a speed of 10 centimetres a second
  (tags: sci)

* The “groupblog” of the ENGINE Enforcers

* 2000AD was, of course, for kids.

* FREAKANGELS

“For the first time, physicists have devised a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction that it normally bends when passing from one material to another, like from air through water or glass. The phenomenon is known as negative refraction and could in principle be used to construct optical microscopes for imaging things as small as molecules, and even to create cloaking devices for rendering objects invisible.”

Also: PLASMONICS!

…plasmonics, an emerging field that “squeezes” light with specially designed materials to create a wave known as a plasmon

(and that wall)

A man allegedly sent his male monkey a sexually explicit audio tape while the animal was in custody:

Bobby Denton Crawford Jr made at least three visits to the Living Materials Center and a handful of tear-filled phone calls requesting Darwin be returned to his custody, according to Jim Dunlap, curator at the LMC.

On one such visit, Dunlap said Crawford handed him a box of Darwin’s toys. Among those toys was an audio tape player with a recorded message from Crawford addressed to Darwin that was of a sexual nature, Dunlap said.

After listening to the tape, Dunlap said Crawford made references to Darwin and himself engaging in mutual stimulation…

Huang Liqian from China is to finally have a huge tumour removed today after discovering it 17 years ago. He chose to ignore the growth, and it eventually grew to the monstrous cancer-collar you see today, which weighs some 15kg.

Shoulder-worn camera acts as a third eye – tech – 26 March 2007 – New Scientist Tech

(Yves Rossy)

(Found here, image not sourced as far as I can see)

Clockpunk fiction by Jim Rossignol:

The disease collectors were famed for their lethargy. Belatedly, Stry realised he had not left himself enough time to deliver the bundles of infected wax…