Say Ommmmmmmmm
After Kwai Chung Caine and the Phantom – The Sadhu – the story of one man’s choice between his spiritual oath and his human instincts. Brought to you by Virgin Comics. PDF of first issue.
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Extra! Extra!
Planet Earth, the new Prince album, to be given away for free as a newspaper insert. Music industry bigwigs splutter, fume.
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Lots of free acoustic music lessons!
MusicMoose wants "to provide the world with free, useful music lessons, and a community based site to help back it all up." The site contains hundreds of free video music lessons (often containing notation and/or tablature) with a distinct focus on acoustic and bluegrass music, all taught by some pretty badass pickers (including the astonishingly good mandolin shredder Anthony Hannigan). There are also obligatory but very useful forums. Takeaway: the whole thing is free and you don’t have to register to watch the lessons.
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shelf life
A few cool shelves: a skull shelf and another, made of books by Jim Rosenau, invisible shelf, secret stash shelf, accordion shelf by Thut Möbel, maze shelf and broken shelves.
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10 years of “One Country, Two Systems”
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to the mainland Chinese after 155 years of colonial British rule. Memories of the day are still online, showing the fear that the promised "One Country, Two Systems" policy was a trojan horse. Ten years later, the promise seems intact. Though universal suffrage seems a distant dream, religious and political freedoms are almost on par with Western standards and the economy has survived shipping its industry north. People are marking the day in different ways, while some just want to offer advice
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Dragon Fable.. what a cheesy name.
Hmm, everybody at work seems to be playing this game… I wonder if I should start… or possibly this one.
Apparently Runescape can only be run on one pc on a network at a time, as that it requires a dedicated secure ip connection… well, looks like back to option 1 I go.
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Plasma Pong!
“PLASMA PONG is a variation of PONG that utilizes real-time fluid dynamics to drive the game environment. … In the game you can inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area."
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language of music
Essential tones of music rooted in human speech. Original Duke University paper by Deborah Ross, Jonathan Choi and Dale Purves [pdf].
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In Space no-one wants to hear you.
"Should we ever hear the space-phone ringing, for God’s sake let us not answer". First we are told Space Colonisation is a stupid and expensive idea. Then that contact with space aliens is inadvisable. Maybe David Bowie was right, the government would just ruin it anyway. That’s why we can’t have nice things.
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As slippery as an eel
5 types of Chinese fish subject to temporary import ban. Melamine in farmed fish. The safety of fish farming in question. Are we risking a trade war with China over food? Some see an upside to food globalization. China’s loss may be the Gulf Coast’s gain.
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See Him In The Funny Papers
Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen: The Comic Book is coming to newsstands in two weeks, but you can see an entire 7-page Tek story at Entertainment Weakly Weekly’s EWW EW.com. A little promotionally fluffy info. Of course, there has already been Tek Jansen fan fiction, but this is, like, authorized and pre-read by Stephen Himself.
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Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 rejoice!
Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 rejoice! Three of MST3K’s writer/characters – Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy – have started a new venture: The Film Crew.
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Life from scratch
Dr. Craig Venter, known for his role as a pioneer in the human genome project, has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch: transplanting the entire genome from one bacterium cell to another. Commence the ethics wars.
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Lost Nintendo sex ed tape
You need a trip to Nintendoland for a crash course in knowledge! NSFW
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still working on it
Hey Kids,
Almost done the complete redesign, sorry if it looked ugly off and on, decided to not bother building a dev server to test the site on, figured screw it, its just a blog. The way I figure it, I know how to run a secure site, who cares if its ugly for a little bit? Least it runs.
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Disney Rejection Letter, 1938
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This guy’s grandmother received this rejection letter from Walt Disney Productions in 1938, telling her that she wasn’t welcome at animator training school because she was a girl. The sting seems to have been mitigated somewhat by the excellent stationery they sent the note on.
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wood+marbles=six bits
Matthias Wandel’s astounding wooding calculatory enigma. A woodworker turns his talents to binary mathematics via a cunning series of cats-eyes, clinkers and rounders. Plus many other marbled wonders.
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Snog that Snape, girl!
Anyone who has spent time browsing through Deviant Art has almost certainly run into the cartoons of a young Australian woman named Gemma Wilson. She is fond of Harry Potter, snakepeople and (occasionally) torture and hermaphrodites. She has a fan club. And she has detractors. Make of this what you will.
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