August 11th, 2009: Post #7635
Boffins test cancer-stinging ‘nano-bee’ swarms in mice ? The Register"American medi-boffins say they have developed a way of using tiny nanotech devices, which they call "nanobees", to carry a potentially poisonous drug safely into the body for the purposes of killing cancerous tumours."(tags:sci med nano NANOBEES NOT+THE+NANOBEES THEY'RE+IN+MY+EYES )
Scientists explore how the humble leaf could [...]
April 27th, 2009: Post #7249
Remember Warren’s Rule: if I’ve been awake less than two hours, it is Morning, no matter what the clock says.
I haven’t done the Monday cleanout of my internet compound yet, so let’s see what’s there right now:
* Ian Talty – obit thread for a Whitechapel member who died yesterday during an urban-exploration outing.
* GI JOE: [...]
April 20th, 2009: Post #7211
Selections from my internet spiderhole:
* Grim Meathook Future
* Blood Falls
* 8tracks Mixtapes
* Warren Ellis At London MCM Comics Expo
* Kleid gives you "All the Help You Need" in Dark Horse’s CREEPY #1 this July
I really need to sweep that place out today…
Off to the pub.
March 23rd, 2009: Post #7129
Are our institutions prepared to cope with the effects of a “space weather Katrina,” a rare, but according to the historical record, not inconceivable eventuality?
America’s National Research Council has issued a book, free to read online, on understanding the societal and economic impacts of severe space weather events. It is rich with Grim [...]
August 25th, 2008: Post #6325
DEVELOPMENT-UGANDA: Looming Problems With Kampala’s Waterincreased run-off causes heavy flooding in the valleys, where the poor people who cannot afford hillside residences have built their homes… faeces are getting into the water because most of Kampala's sewage flows untreated into Lake Victoria…(tags:eco gmf grim+meathook+future )
Israeli demand draining Sea of GalileeThere's a headline for you.(tags:eco pol [...]
June 3rd, 2008: Post #5990
Is putting humans on Mars important? Yes. Humans need land to live on, and, in a dynamic environment, they need land to move to. Closed systems are bad because they remove options. A single planet is a closed system. And the thing about land is, as a history teacher of [...]
April 23rd, 2008: Post #5868
The World Food
Programme said yesterday
that it has begun to cut the
provision of school meals to
some of the world’s
poorest children as the
global crisis over food
prices worsens.”
so_very_doomed: Food
doom
April 22nd, 2008: Post #5866
Major retailers in New York,
in areas of New England,
and on the West Coast are
limiting purchases of flour,
rice, and cooking oil as
demand outstrips supply.
There are also anecdotal
reports that some
consumers are hoarding
grain stocks. At a Costco
Warehouse in Mountain
View, Calif., yesterday,
shoppers grew frustrated
and occasionally uttered
expletives as they
searched in vain for the
large sacks of rice they
usually buy.
“Where’s the rice?”
an engineer from Palo Alto,
Calif., Yajun Liu, said. “You
should be able to buy
something like rice. This is
ridiculous.” The bustling
store in the heart of
March 10th, 2008: Post #5696
Gustave Whitehead – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: sax-rover)
NO PAIN IN POP
record label – very fun blog, good music on their MySpace page
(tags: music label blog)
AP probe finds drugs in drinking water – Yahoo! News
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water [...]
November 8th, 2006: Post #3268
Hello,
Josh Ellis here, from Zenarchery.com.
I’m writing you because:
A) you blogged something interesting about the Trinity micropatronage project that I did in March/April of this year
(http://www.zenarchery.com/trinity),
B) I know you personally, or
C) I’m guessing you might possibly be interested in these micropatronage projects in general.
Many of you mentioned that you might be interested in helping out with [...]
March 18th, 2006: Post #2005
22 MB, 48min mp3: 20 minutes in, Bruce starts quoting me, from “Life’s A Riot With Meathook Vs Noospheric”. Obviously, the poor man was desperate. It’s a hell of a talk, though, funny and far-ranging, and you should listen to it despite that awful failure at minute 20 (and the comedy manner in [...]
March 17th, 2006: Post #1995
WP: Storm-battered parish considers hired guns – washingtonpost.com Highlights – MSNBC.com
In Louisiana, up to 100 DynCorp employees would be deputized to be make arrests, carry weapons, and dress in Sheriff’s Dept uniforms
(tags: crime gmf)
Access Denied to Crucial New HIV/Aids Medicines
MSF also refuses to accept standard practice of drugcos to market less adapted drugs to African/Asian/LatinAmerican [...]
February 23rd, 2006: Post #1888
South Dakota lawmakers have voted to outlaw nearly all abortions, setting up the first direct legal attack on Roe v. Wade by a state in 14 years.
Abortion rights advocates across the country reacted with outrage and dismay. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which runs the sole abortion clinic in South Dakota, said it was [...]
February 23rd, 2006: Post #1885
A La Nina was being watched closely by the U.S. National Weather Service for the possibility it might help produce another busy Atlantic hurricane season.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., told the Pensacola (Fla.,) News Journal it is closely tracking the cool pool of Pacific water that’s [...]
January 17th, 2006: Post #1733
Renowned scientist James Lovelock says he believes the world has passed the point of no return for climate change, and civilization is unlikely to survive.
In an extraordinarily pessimistic new assessment published in Monday’s Independent, Lovelock suggests efforts to counter global warming cannot succeed, and that, in effect, it is already too late. Lovelock [...]
January 11th, 2006: Post #1702
Norway is to build a “doomsday vault” in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels.
Built with Fort Knox-type security, the three-million-dollar vault will be designed to hold around two million seeds [...]
October 17th, 2005: Post #1335
Greece has become the latest country to report a case of bird flu as the virus appears to spread across Europe.
Twelve swans have also tested positive for bird flu in a second cluster in Romania.
And the European Commission has ordered urgent tests on dead birds found in Croatia.
Meanwhile in Asia, the deadly H5N1 [...]
September 4th, 2005: Post #1187
“They killed a man here last night,” Steve Banka, 28, told the Reuters news agency before he left on Sunday.
“A young lady was being raped and stabbed. And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to [...]
September 4th, 2005: Post #1186
An organisation of Christian fundamentalists claims the destruction brought on by Hurricane Katrina is God’s judgment against New Orleans for holding festivals like the annual gay Southern Decadence party.
“Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city,” said Repent America director Michael Marcavage on the organisation’s Web site. [...]
September 4th, 2005: Post #1185
I’m thinking about instituting a new “America’s Slow Death” or “United States Of Meathook” category…
US Chief Justice Rehnquist dies. As Tek says: coathangers at the ready, girls.
September 2nd, 2005: Post #1179
“The Gideons International are sending 40,000 Personal Witnessing Testaments (New Testament, Psalms, Proverbs) to be distributed at the Astrodome and other relief centers in Houston. The scriptures are on a truck due to arrive Sunday by 10 a.m. and we are planning shifts to provide patoral care 24/7. God is at work, and [...]
September 2nd, 2005: Post #1178
I know some of you are reaching overload with this already, but I’m afraid this has its (meat)hooks into me. This has gotten seriously fucking surreal:
The BBC’s Matt Frei, in New Orleans, says conditions in the city’s convention centre, where up to 20,000 more are stranded, are the most wretched he has seen anywhere, [...]
September 2nd, 2005: Post #1176
At the New Orleans’ Superdome stadium, refugees describe piles of faeces, knee-high, after the toilets overflowed and people were forced to relieve themselves on staircases.
At least seven bodies are scattered outside the city’s convention centre.
“I don’t treat my dog like that,” 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at a woman who lay dead [...]
WARREN ELLIS
Jean Snow - 05 Sep 10
Just your friendly neighborly reminder that this month’s PauseTalk (Vol. 44) happens tonight (September 6) at Cafe Pause, with the usual start time of 20:00 (and the cafe reserved from 19:30). As previously mentioned, I’ll bring out the magazines from last month’s SNOW Magazine Cafe, for anyone who didn’t get at chance to check out the event.
Jean Snow - 05 Sep 10
Just over a week ago the latest issue of Wired (September 2010) was released for iPad, and as I’ve done for all issues released for the device so far, I immediately bought it. Yes, despite the less-than-perfect way they’ve handled the digital conversion of the magazine, I’ve been enjoying the magazine, not only because of its nice price — for us Tokyo expats that is, although I still want an even cheaper subscription option — but also because I like the way it reads, and the way the material is presented (and those videos have been quite good too).
BUT, I was pretty surprised at some rather ridiculous flubs in the latest issue, both cases tied to the use of type. First example, pictured above, is an entire story — which also happens to be part of the issue’s cover story, “The Web is Dead,” which means it’s long — presented as white text on a red background. Really? Did anyone at Wired actually try reading the article after it was set in those colors? My eyes were practically in tears by the time I got to the end.
Next up was the use of type too tiny to read. The image above shows said article in landscape mode, and that “Buried” piece is where you encounter the problem — interestingly (if that’s the right word) enough, if you change it to portrait mode, it’s the page’s other article that becomes barely readable.
The big issue here is that these problems are tied to the fact that you can’t change type size in the magazine. So far it hasn’t been an issue for me because all previously issues were formatted in a way that made all text very readable on the iPad screen. I can appreciate that adjustable type size would ruin layouts, and I do like the layouts we’re offered in the magazine, but you can’t sacrifice readability just to make sure a column fits somewhere, or to attain a certain aesthetic (in the case of white type on red).
William Gibson - 05 Sep 10
As the London Times recently said of my living room, though you probably didn’t see that, as it’s behind their subscription wall. Had to check the definition. Hope they meant more “markedly old-fashioned” than “rotten”.
Starting tomorrow on the 36-day pre-Canadian leg of the Zero History tour. US and UK schedules are behind the button on this site’s front page. The subsequent Canadian dates (all in October, save for Nov 1 in Victoria BC) are behind the modest blue link on that schedule page.
Have not been blogging for quite a while, hence the fustiness, due mainly to the sublime ease of Twitter, whereon I am @GreatDismal and quite annoyingly posty.
Hope to get a bit of a breeze through here, with the constant traveling and all.
Ectoplasmosis - 05 Sep 10
One of the more successful Team Fortress 2 video mini-memes is the Dr. Weird dub. With audio taken from animated shorts preceding episodes of the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the new animations (done with TF2 character models in Source Filmmaker) are short, simple, and funny. I post this as an introductory demonstration of the versatility of the game assets, and the ingenuity of the fan community. Enjoy.
Previously:
Meet the Team
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Coilhouse - 04 Sep 10
An animated short of MAXIMUM MEMEWORTHY ADORABLENESS, directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp. (“I am a director and an editor. And I literally got a college degree in making movies! You believe that? A COLLEGE DEGREE. College for movies? Hah! Can you beat it? I don’t think so– movies are the best!”) He is made of awesome. Go check out his website RITE NAO.
Marcel the Shell is voiced (“untreated and unenhanced”) by Jenny Slate– yes, the very same Jenny who dropped an F-Bomb during the live taping of her SNL debut. Prepare to squee your pants.
Post tags: Animation, Memes, Silly-looking types
jwz - 04 Sep 10
The Vigilant Citizen is one of the world's finest blogs.
This commercial intended for German television has it all: checkerboard patterns everywhere, transhumanism, deshumanization, mind control, alter-personalities, Marilyn Monroe (the original Monarch sex kitten), the colors white, black and red, etc.
"We love to entertain you". In other words, this is the kind the stuff that is supposed to entertain you.
Oh, it does. It does.
Coilhouse - 04 Sep 10
Holy balls, kids. HOLY. BALLS.
These are stills from a clip of one seriously wackypants “Japanese punk rock Exorcist homage” called (appropriately enough) The Exorsister. It comes to us courtesy of the ever-terrifying and wondrous Weird Shit Magnet that is Dogmeat, who says “I’m laughing, because this is one clip where even I ask myself ‘Where do you get these?’ Stick around for the octopus attack… as if you would turn this off!”
Definitely not safe for work. Click the collection of stills above… IF YOUR DARE.
Post tags: Cyberpunk, Fetish, Grrrl, Horror, Japan, Madness, Punk, Sexuality, Silly-looking types
jwz - 04 Sep 10
Some of these videos don't play, because all extant copies on Youtube are marked "embedding disabled". I even tried re-uploading them, and the fabulously evil content-ID system re-fucked the new copies too. So, the copyright holders would rather you not become familiar with the work of the artists whom they purportedly represent. Oh well.
