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Wear Your Signal Strength on Your Shirt
I love the guys at ThinkGeek just a leeetle more than is probably seemly. But it’s because they have grabbed the Geek Mindset with both hands and stuffed it into their mouths like so much Beefaroni, making chorfing sounds all the while. Their latest offering is the Wi-Fi T-shirt. The animated decal on the front…
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Steampunk Etsy Shop
Despite an inability to spell “accoutrements,” Etsy member ratchet has some neat items for “the post-civilized.” Pretty! Link (via BoingBoing)
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Buckaroo Banzai Returns (Sort of)
Fans have been waiting nearly 20 years for the promised sequel, Buckaroo Banzai Versus The World Crime League, and…they’re going to have to wait a while longer. However, the original writers have teamed up to produce a two-issue comic book Prequel. Entitled Of Hunan Bondage, it is described thusly: Buckaroo finds himself in dire straights:…
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Scalzi Does Creationism
Author John Scalzi recently visited the new Creation Museum, and has posted both a captioned Flickr set and a long essay about his experience. Good stuff. Did you know, for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden…
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Invisible Tanks
The British Ministry of Defence and Funny Spelling has just unveiled new technology that can make tanks invisible. It uses a bank of cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto the tank. The result is that someone looking at the tank will see only the landscape behind it. Even cooler, the…
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Tunguska Crater May Have Been Found
The thing that whacked into Russia in 1908 may have fragmented, and part of it might be responsible for the nearby Lake Cheko. This new study raises about as many questions as it solves, particularly why there’s evidence of only one fragment. Still, neat. Link
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Guide to Reading Discworld
There are currently 33 novels in Pratchett’s Discworld behemoth, all of them interrelated. Krzysztof “I Have Too Much Time on My Hands” Kietzman of Lspace.org maintains a graphical guide to all of the novels, in multiple languages. All the main lines of the Discworld books are laid out in sequence, with dotted lines showing how…
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Interview with William Gibson
The 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an interview with William Gibson, including some musings on the future of computing. When you coined the word “cyberspace,” did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy? Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn’t…
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A Headline I Like
Priest Stalks Conan I had no idea Thoth-Amon was still around.
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Happy Birthday to Me
Today I turned 39 (for the first time). When I was a kid, I calculated that in the year 2000 I would be 32–ancient!–and wondered if I’d still be young enough to appreciate the new millennium. Um. Heh. I’m afraid that I’m going to have to buck the trend and admit that I’m a lot…