Global Spin

Dr. Horrible: An oral history

Posted by Deana in Blog, Culture, Events, Film, Fun, Humor, Music, Plain foolishness, Science fiction, That which is awesome on July 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The new endeavor, named Virgle, has been written up on the Google blog by Sir Richard Branson.
Radcliffs, get your rockets ready!

Posted by Deana in April Foolishness, Blog, Business, Fun, Humor, News, Oddly Enough, Science, Space, Travel, You have got to be kidding on April 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments »

If you’re browsing the site on an iPhone (insert pretentious comments here), you might notice our new look tailored for that device’s web-browsing experience. (See example screenshot at left.) This is all thanks to the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme, which makes it incredibly simple to add an iPhone-specific theme to the site. And boy [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Web 2.0 on January 25th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I recently made a few calling cards for use at the Mars Society convention. I kinda like them, and they come in handy when I want to encourage random people to go to Global Spin:

Anyone interested in one of their own? I’d be happy to make up a PDF with your name and globalspin.com address [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Making Stuff on October 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been looking for a few choice keywords to describe what we talk about here at Global Spin. You know, “science, culture, politics, writing, foolishness” kind of thing. One of the places I checked was Compete, which offered the oddest suggestion yet: “important punctuation.”
So, yeah. I just had to Google it. There on page 2 [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Plain foolishness on August 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m hoping to give Global Spin a bit of a refresh over the next [mumble mumble time period], so don’t be alarmed if you see sudden changes or other odd behavior.  For those who are interested in such things, I’ll be:

switching to a nicer site theme based on Peaceful Rush
upgrading to Wordpress 2.2 (with extra [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Uncategorized on May 16th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Those of you with an interest in things Chinese and para-Chinese (I’m looking at you. Ahem.) might be interested in reading the blog that anthropologist David K. Jordan has been maintaining while spending a semester teaching in Asia. It’s chock full of linguistic and religious observations, all with that pleasant snarkiness that DKJ has mastered.

Posted by Deana in Academia, Blog, Culture, Fun, Humor, Language, Religion, Travel on April 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

This makes me happy. There’s a whole blog, Paleo-Future.Com, that focuses on images of the future that people in the past have held. Lots of Disney stuff, of course, but other very fascinating pictures, videos, and other resources.

Posted by Deana in Alien Invasions, Architecture, Art, Beauty and Fashion, Blog, Cosmetically Enhanced Vertebrates, Culture, Fun, History, Kitchen Sink, Oddly Enough, Science fiction, Technology on April 24th, 2007 | No Comments »

THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY
This is rich; hope you don’t mind Chris! Explanation here.

Posted by Deb in Alien Invasions, April Foolishness, Blog, Fun, Oddly Enough, Plain foolishness, Technology, Would you like to play a game?, You have got to be kidding on April 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »

At least Chris and I are. He’s interviewed on Podbop, and I’m profiled on Offbeat Bride. I’m also in the Offbeat Bride book, too….

Posted by Deana in Blog, Books, Business, Fun, News/Media, Oddly Enough, Plain foolishness, Uncategorized, You have got to be kidding on January 30th, 2007 | 5 Comments »