Cassini has just gone through a “gap” in the rings of Saturn where it still managed to be pelted with microscopic particles for a while. The neat part is that they made a sound recording of it all with a QT movie that I think is a simulation. Ah, the pebble-y sound of space (from inside, where it’s safe).
Yearly Archives: 2004
Experimental film
“This video”:http://www.homestarrunner.com/expfilm.html is so cool I don’t even have words to describe it. You’ll just have to see for yourself.
Go on. You can do it.
Ungh.
If this blog entry on “prisoner abuse in the name of Anti-Terrorism”:http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2004/07/failures_of_ima.html doesn’t make you feel like you’ve been kicked in the stomach, then you’re made of stronger stuff than I.
horrible screaming monkeys
If _The Onion_ hired Emo Phillips and Pee-Wee Herman to do their editorials, then it might turn out something like “Fafblog”:http://fafblog.blogspot.com/. It’s bizarre at first, but once you get past the odd characters and grammatic white noise the cutting political humor emerges, like the “young lady becoming the old lady”:http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/young_lady_old_lady.htm. Or something.
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Tales of Future Past
Please excuse me if this is a duplicate, but I honestly don’t remember where I found out about it. (If it was you, let me know and I’ll update this entry.) Anyhoo, “Tales of Future Past”:http://www.davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm is a cheeky site with lots of pictures and text from old sci-fi magazines, books, shows, and articles, with commentary from our post-ironic perspective.