This interview at Wired regarding the final rendering of Blade Runner is awesome: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined
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Free Burma
There’s some messed up shit going on in this part of the world…
A Hyperlinky Ode to a Damn Fine Fish – Soft Tilapia Pr0n
Oh, Tilapia, how versatile thy be!
You are on my plate nearly every week, and my favorite New Years repast.
In fact, you are farmed in such numbers, so misused for pest/plant control, and just so damn tough that you threaten every natural environment you visit.
Some even call you the farmed fish of biblical fame.
However.
Now they can make your skin into leather.
… And can hence be used for bust control.
THE END
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Link to the online retailer of tilapia skin products mentioned in the latter Reuters article linked above: angie&penny
I finally found the video most of the graphics used above were pulled from (the others are mine or from Google Images):
but now i iznt
I thought I’d have enough of LOLcats approximately three seconds before seeing the 3,764th one in an email from my 13 year old cousin, but apparently not. This variation was pretty funny: retelling the greatest story ever told, LOLcat style
Endless Light
Just found out today that Madeleine L’Engle passed. A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books growing up. I haven’t read it in twenty years, but I still remember that awesome illustration of ants walking on a string in my edition.
RIP
Google Earth Flight Sim Easter Egg
I’m going to try this later tonight, if my net connection at home is still up.
Apparently, the latest version of Google Earth has an easter egg: a flight simulator. It’s not quite like Microsoft Flight Simulator, but it’s a promising start.
How to see this feature. Make sure you have Google Earth 4.2. Open the application, click on the globe and then press Ctrl+Alt+A. You should see this dialog that lets you choose one of the two aircrafts (F16 “Viper” and SR22) and an airport.
Go read the full post.
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UPDATE: Don’t throw away your dedicated flight sims just yet. My slow net speed means the sim is constantly updating the stream and I’m flying over an endless blob of green and brown.
C. Buddha’s Crystal Ball…
… is really what I should call this blog.
Something I joked about a month ago (link) actually happened three weeks later (link).
My next big prediction is: The upcoming Thai elections in December will be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Also, somebody important in Thailand will die very soon.
Being a prophet is just so goddamn tiring…
Yellowstone: Get Out of Jail Free?
Yellowstone National Park’s 260 square miles in Montana and 50 square miles in Idaho beckon with recreation, rugged terrain and wildlife.
But as the only place where a federal court district extends beyond state lines, it offers visitors and criminals a potential legal no man’s land.
Closing the loophole would be fairly simple, but the law professor who first analyzed the problem said it will require the political will to act while the crimes are still minor, like poaching elk, before someone tries to get away with murder.
An interesting theory for those not as rich as, say, OJ (was).
Read the full article here: The perfect place for the perfect crime?