Steampunk Meets 80's Movies

Stormtroopers, Boba Fett and Alien--as seen in Dubai.

Reely Cool Reel

Ventilate, a Canadian special effects house has a new reel on their site. It has some astounding images. It's a must see.








Watch Ventilate's full reel here.

Once Again the Media is Short-Sighted About Technology

How many uses can you think of for a 1 terabyte (1000 GB) CD?

tech.co.uk is reporting about a new technology ("TeraDisc") developed by Memphile (to whom they didn't bother to link). It uses 200 5MBGB layers to store the data.

That's astounding isn't it. Let you mind wander at the possibilites.

Or you can be short-sighted like they were:

It's hard to imagine that a disc format not invented by one of the world's big technology firms could become a future industry standard. But it's perfectly conceivable that these discs might one day be used in libraries to archive digital copies of books and so forth.

Yet another example of short-sighted people claiming technology won't be widely used.

Oh, How Language Changes

Modern Mechanix blog has a wonderful article from the Nov 1934 Popular Science on Playing with Matches and Lighting Gasoline on Fire.

Embeded in the article is this sidebar:

Popular Science reported a poll (circa 1934, I would assume) whereby they discovered that the word iodine is pronounced "i-o-DEEN", chloride is pronounced "KLOR-id" and oxide is pronounced "OX-id."

Funny how things change.

Johnson & Johnson Fights for Video Gamers?

So the Canadian Red Cross recently said they were going to sue video game producers for using the red cross emblem.

Recently, David Pratt of the Canadian Red Cross sent a letter to a Vancouver law firm representing several game developers, requesting that the games industry cease usage of the emblem of the Red Cross in games. The familiar icon is of course used in an enormous number of video games, most of them first person shooters, to represent health packs or similar items.

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Now, Johnson & Johnson (think "Band-Aids") is suing the Red Cross for use of the red cross emblem.

J&J, one of the largest drug makers in the world has sued the Red Cross over its use of one of the most famous symbols in the world - the red cross.

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While neither article mentions it, I can't help but think that J&J is trying to correct an indignity.

What do you think?

Cooler than Any Words

On eBay UK for the next 17 hours.

These are the coolest steampunk eyewear/goggles/monocles I've seen!
Apparently made by Alex CF. Check out his site!

Esoteric Humor -- Part 3

via jackszwergold

Esoteric Humor -- Part 2

from the best comic on the net!

Esoteric Humor -- Part 1

This is why you can't LARP, honey!

Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'

COGDELL, GA—The Cogdell School Board banned the teaching of the controversial 'Theory Of Math' in its schools Monday. 'We are simply not confident of this mysterious process by which numbers turn, as if by magic, into other numbers,' board member Gus Reese said. 'Those mathematicians are free to believe 3 times 4 equals 12, but that dun [sic] give them the right to force it on our children.' Under the new ruling, all math textbooks will carry a disclaimer noting that math is only one of many valid theories of number-manipulation."

From The Onion