This one's got me tied up in knots.
Steve - did you see that Speilberg is going to direct AI? (Kubrick's big unfinished project) Here's the story if anyone is interested.
Agent-based modeling at Sugarscape develops complex systems from basic fact-of-life parameters. This is good science, working towards understanding everything, from the ground up, instead of working backward from symptoms. They're promising a Java program that will allow you to run your own experiments; for now, you can see QuickTime movies of their results.
I gave this link to Steve, and he said I should post it. I didn’t think it was of general interest, but, of course, he’s right. The idea is to connect everything, or at least make it available. Even if you’re not interested, you can learn a lot about the poster from the post. It’s the apotheosis of the editor; the post-modern form of identity. To wit: the Silver Age Marvel Comics Cover Gallery. Images like this one, by the late, great Jack Kirby, made an indelible impression on me, and the Marvel style has become ingrained in our culture. The Silver Age is basically the 60s, when Kirby and Stan Lee transformed the kiddie comic book through the power of cosmic radiation, inflating it to mythic proportions. Actually, they were middle aged hacks, but they had the zeitgeist something fierce. Kirby is (justly) more celebrated today; scripter Lee was also the boss, and hogged the credit$. I’ve done a lot of Kirbyesque drawings in my time, but these days it’s Stan’s influence I recognize in my work. His verbosity remained consistent as he swung from epic drama in King James cadence, to Jewish burlesque comedy. He teetered on the brink of irony, but the good guys won (though not without complications). I should write half so well. Not to mention he was churning out something like ten titles every month! I have a hard time posting once a week. He also taught me about alliteration, the history of which will eventually be an Arboretum topic (bet you can’t wait). Which brings me to this fine rhetoric site (note the tree style) where we can see that alliteration is just one of the many wonderful forms of repetition we have at our disposal. This bit of edification is offered to cover the fact that the real reason I didn’t want to post was that, after 30 years, I’m still embarrassed by my comic books, even though academia has by now embraced pop culture, easing the shame of perpetual adolescence. These kids today don’t know how easy they’ve got it.
The BBC has a story about a new breakthrough in cloning which has resulted in the birth of 5 new pigs.
In light of Linda's fondness for the pink creatures I won't mention the need these little guys have been created to fill.
In light of Linda's fondness for the pink creatures I won't mention the need these little guys have been created to fill.
Jesse James Garrett (formerly of jjg.net fame) has a new page called weblognation. Basically he just reposts other webloggers posts that he finds interesting. Sort of a K-Tel best of the weblogs compilation. Pretty good if you want to keep up with the blog world, but are a little short on time.
Oh, come on, Dave. Are you saying this is not a progressive scene? (at least I didn't go looking for nudes)
They moved in 500,000 years ago, and the rent is nothing!
I'm not familliar with Bullitnuts or the label "pork" Are they good?
I think there is a band named Pork which is currently popular with the under 30 crowd.
During my brief stint in art school some fellow classmates had a band named "porkey carcass"
Nice one Alex!
just ordered some music from pork recordings (UK)- steve are you familiar with bullitnuts or anyone from this label?
Reading a book wherein Robert Thurman proposes to "coin" the term psychonauts (1994) in re tibetan monks. This is from 1994 - can this be the first usage of this term? Mr. Wilson? Anyone?
avocadolite.com is a cute blog++ with emphasis on design which i found while bloggerin through stuff and rot.
Nasa comes through with some more great pictures. Here's a giant sandstorm off the north African coast:
And here's a beauty (taken from the ground) of the Sombrero Galaxy:
As usual, these pictures are shamelessly stolen from one of my favorite sites: BBC News Sci/Tech. I guess being able to do this sort of thing is one of the advantages of having a low traffic site.
And here's a beauty (taken from the ground) of the Sombrero Galaxy:
As usual, these pictures are shamelessly stolen from one of my favorite sites: BBC News Sci/Tech. I guess being able to do this sort of thing is one of the advantages of having a low traffic site.
Put yourself in the hands of the professionals.
now the NSA is getting grief from Europe in re the use of the Echelon network to benefit US companies abroad...
speaking of interdimensional orgiastic effects, check out this cruel site of the day -- baiting.org -- and rate your favorite sexchat pranksters.
"The Archangel Fairy Queen is directing Gnomes - Nursery rhyme creatures are darting
everywhere... giggling. Then as the BIG BEN UNIVERSAL CLOCK strikes MID NIGHT, the
curtain rises in the CRYSTAL AMPHITHEATRE OF NUIT. Poleshift! The Pumpkin flips to the
Golden Coach and the "Golden Coach" into the Pumpkin.
Andre calls these fairy creatures 0's and 1's. A jigsaw bunch of male digits with female holes to put them in. Pierre calls it the Yin Yang Era: Either way the interdimensional ORGIASTIC EFFECT is synchronous at 777."
I didn't quite read enough to tell you when, exactly, 777 will be upon us, but according to the Quarkmaster of the Galactic Federation of Light Forces, we are en route. Don't say you weren't warned. (Plus, if you hurry, you can order the Cosmic Cube Directory and Applied Metaphysics Solution Sheet from Star Base One for US$25.)
Here's a good one for your lunar and astronomical needs.
Here's a great resource from the helpful folks at the Central Intelligence Agency. Everything you could want to know about every country in the world. (Nice maps too.) Where else could you find out that the highest point on Europa Island is an unnamed peak 24m above sealevel? Good stuff.
Yes, we were down for about an hour today (just past noon.) All services were down (http, mail, telnet) but they got things restored fairly promptly. I won't care if the outages happen at the rate we've experienced (1 hour every few months.) Also, unrelated (honest!), my page is coming back. Not quite done yet with all the internals, but I've started blogging anyway. Check in on the pre-release if you want at www.digitalmediatree.com/jim/newjim.php3. And, oh yeah: GO STEVE!
THE BATTLE IS DNA TRYING TO FIGURE IT'S ELF OUT
Actual photographs of
sprites and elves. Not bad quality either considering what tricky subjects they are.
For you history and social science buffs, here is
Prof. Dan Graff's home page
Nothing but links to all catagories. Lots of good stuff there.
