January 2010
81 posts
— Yes, VIrginia, there is a leading authority on DeLorean time-machine replicas, and he built one you can buy on eBay http://bit.ly/8hyEMd
— The Flickr cutaways pool http://bit.ly/aTsIp
— Hey, isn’t this going to be The Year We Make Contact?
— The Catalogue of Dispersed Objects http://bit.ly/6sM6Zq
December 2009
60 posts
— Alan Moore’s zine Dodgem Logic: it’s 1989 again. http://bit.ly/8oCs6U
— Man spends $330,000 on a space station in a virtual world … and will likely make it all back. Future’s here now. http://bit.ly/8do8Fk
— Year (noun). A period of 365 disappointments (Ambrose Bierce)
— Taking names. A new decade of ass-kicking to commence shortly.
— Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space http://bit.ly/5B1aYV
— Iakov Chernikhov’s architectural fantasies, 1925-33 http://bit.ly/20oOl1
— Hammer Time: detourned STOP signs http://bit.ly/8NqOJZ
— urns out that journalism, like poetry, can be written by software. I feel much better now. http://bit.ly/7zcriy
— turns out that journalism, like poetry, can be written by software. I feel much better now. http://bit.ly/tfctR
— GTA IV Time-lapse: 15 Days in Liberty City http://bit.ly/6aupb
— Santa smokes Chesterfields http://bit.ly/7cz9Jw
— minimalist papercraft celebration of 25 years of the SF game Elite http://bit.ly/1zr4nR
— Penguin’s First 10 Books http://bit.ly/6d1wJQ
— Immanent in the Manifold City: A Newspaper for Time-Travellers http://bit.ly/6rfjnJ
— Tweetie for Mac suddenly broken and won’t even open. No new software installed, either. #fail
— Amazon sold more e-books than dead tree books this Christmas http://bit.ly/6BBDZZ
— Fairytale Of New York (demo version) http://bit.ly/5L6PGh
— Nike and the branding of urban space: the 2002 cage-soccer Scorpion KO campaign http://bit.ly/4w7SfX
— Black Christmas: an MP3 compilation from the record collection of the late great Lux Interior http://bit.ly/5bdTPQ
— 21st century vocabulary: decompression http://bit.ly/4lF9wG
— Photos of Dubai shot by Martin Becka with an 1857 view camera http://bit.ly/rkz2X
— Vocabulary for the second decade of the 21st century: Real Robot vs Super Robot http://bit.ly/66pp0e
— Sometimes you don’t get a choice about whether you get to be a sequitur or not. http://bit.ly/2D4HG1
— going home sick. #xmasfail
— empty hard liquor minis on top of the urinals. O bus terminal, I have missed you.
— Lou Reed’s, um, iPhone app? http://bit.ly/4OyHkK
— Coca-Cola Freestyle Jet Machine produces 104 beverages. Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice. http://bit.ly/3i6v7g
— what Cookie Monster would look like if someone shaved all that blue hair off.
— Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain (1864) — a Flickr set http://bit.ly/RGCn
— 75 Most Iconic DC Comics covers http://bit.ly/5A6ruP
— Query from My Italo-Canadian niece: “Why don’t you live in Stoney Creek like everyone else?”
— Four thousand litres of Courvoisier cocktail and a hairnet http://bit.ly/4EeS4k
— Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border http://bit.ly/52fMoR
would feel more like an evil genius if he had more screens on his desktop.
— grinding your Gamerscore: http://bit.ly/8SYEnp
— a post-literate critique of innumeracy: http://bit.ly/91Gbme
— swine shot in one arm, flu shot in the other. Slept 12 hours straight.
— End of term. Needing a TV Helmet now. http://bit.ly/5m3zOG
— Copenhagen must be taken, in the morning, in the morning …
— Left 4 Dead Zombie Holiday Cards! http://bit.ly/5y0R9L
— bring on the chicken milk.
— before he self-destructs, 50 Cent wants to take Susan Boyle clubbing http://bit.ly/7bjiSo
— What do you mean it’ll look stupid when you’re 80? It looks stupid NOW. http://bit.ly/6ZZQXj
— R. Sikoryak’s “Batman by Dostoyevsky” (a Crime & Punishment comic drawn in Dick Sprang’s Golden Age Batman style) http://bit.ly/5pOtPL
— “Loser-generated content” http://bit.ly/5cqVJd
— Santa, NO!: a Tumblr gallery of unpleasant Santa antics http://bit.ly/7zIToP