links for 2006-08-26
August 26th, 2006 | Uncategorized
-
Brian Wood’s new NYC-based political sf series — the first issue scanned and downloadable for free from the publlisher.
-
Sean Phillips tours the UK in support of his new Marvel Icon series CRIMINAL.
-
Charlie Stross finds the stupidest Swiss Army Knife in the world.
-
Re: the Pluto farce: “…one of a zillion reasons why these silly sons of bitches need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up: Carl Sagan’s Pioneer Plaque. Way to make us look like a bunch of dipshits to the spacemen.”
-
Journalista, the original boingboing-for-comics, is back.
-
The $10,000 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research was tonight given to the team based at the ANU Department of Physics for its quantum cryptography breakthrough, which uses light to convey data that is impervious to hackers and eavesdroppers.
-
“This particular song is all weeping slide guitar and analog synths, and the lo-fi quality makes it feel like it’s coming from the bottom of a well… approaches the chill-inducing territory normally reserved only for someone like Neko, or maybe Nico”
Fuck! This blog is so better in this “new layout”!!!
The Pioneer Plaque makes us look like a bunch of idiots anyway. I mean, what are the aliens going to think when they show up and discover that people actually have pubic hair.
YAY. at last, a multi-tool so large you need a multi-tool to open it. Oh, and you’ll need diamond encrusted finger nails just to get the little buggers out.
The people that need to shut the fuck up are the people that can’t figure out why Pluto’s status needed to change. It’s a dirty snowball, now being outsized by other dirty snoballs, and if Pluto’s a planet then all these other Oort cloud debris are planets and the word “planet” loses it’s meaning. Unlike the web and pop culture, words in scientific circles need precise meanings. The rest of you go about your business adding ‘pod’ to everything.