Today we talk about science. First we have this bit from USA Today about the increasing goodness of solar power. Apparently we’re just at the point where big strides are happening and soon solar will be a viable energy source, I am totally into it. This will reduce the strain on the energy grid by [...]

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Don’t you hate mondays? Don’t you love art?
If you go way back to the olden days you’ll remember a wee cartoon from japan called Speed Racer, mentioned here before. Well, there’s a little more news out on the movie being directed by the Wachowski brothers (via /.). Apparently they’ve got some new super ultra fancy [...]

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I like the Improv Everywhere/Flashmob type of stuff. It’s pretty cool. My favourite one I’ve seen so far was the one they did at the Union Sq. big box store windows. I just came across this one they did down in Lower Manhattan - a big one with over 800 people. MP3 Experiment Four had [...]

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You know I grew up playing D&D, I played my first game when I was 6 - my older cousins let me in on one of their games. Growing up, I always wanted to go to GenCon - but only did well after I had stopped playing during college (I went to Chicago, a hop [...]

Categories: breakfast links · sci-fi

For you lovers of those old soviet propaganda posters, I’ve got the site for you. A Soviet Poster A Day proposes to post a poster every single day with a translation and a little (or a lot) of commentary. It’s pretty darn great. This beauty to the right has the phrase “all world records must [...]

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Sigh, another monday. Nice art.
Ok, this one’s gross. Some German guy was found dead in his apartment (via ectoplasmosis)- eaten by his own pet spiders and lizards. Totally gross, the cops came when his neighbors began reporting the smell , he’d been dead a week or two before he was found. Check out this quote [...]

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So it turns out that New Yorkers now live nine months longer than the national average, clocking in at 78.6 years. Yeaaahhh booooyyyyyy. Some of the measures the city has taken like the smoking ban and now the trans-fat ban are paying off, but really the main driver is that we walk a lot. We [...]

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Ok, you know that I like the future. And what’s in the future? Rocket packs. When is the future, you ask? Well, loyal reader, the future is now. Check out this video from this year’s Rocket Belt Conference at Niagara Falls! Yeah, I want one. Strangely the internet doesn’t know about the Rocket Belt Conference. [...]

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Remember The Dark Crystal? Jim Henson’s opus? Well it’s 2007 and that means it’s the 25th anniversary and that means… Special Edition DVD! Now, they’ve tried to recapture some of the magic with MirrorMask (which I quite dug, but can understand why one might not have loved it), but it never caught on the way [...]

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Curbed has posted 6 things first time real estate buyers need to know. It turns out, that this second time real estate buyer didn’t know a few of the things on the list! For example I knew that square footage tended to be a haphazard affair since there were many different ways of measuring an [...]

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