occasional fish: on some of the pages there are dirty things

this weird little town

the devil in the details (about me)
toils in glorious song (my writings)
in the absence of eyes (my photos)
my blogger profile

words:In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

sounds:
my lastfm profile

my Cover Songs project

wants: my wishlist

Archives
">October 2007		September 2007
August 2007		July 2007
June 2007		May 2007
April 2007		March 2007
February 2007		January 2007
December 2006		November 2006
October 2006		September 2006
August 2006		July 2006
June 2006		May 2006
April 2006		March 2006
February 2006		January 2006
December 2005		November 2005
October 2005		September 2005
August 2005		July 2005
June 2005		May 2005
April 2005		March 2005
February 2005		January 2005
December 2004		November 2004
October 2004		September 2004
August 2004		July 2004
June 2004		May 2004
April 2004		March 2004
February 2004		January 2004
December 2003		November 2003
October 2003		September 2003
August 2003		July 2003
June 2003		May 2003
April 2003		March 2003
February 2003		January 2003
December 2002		November 2002
October 2002		September 2002
August 2002		July 2002
June 2002		May 2002
April 2002		March 2002
February 2002		January 2002
December 2001		November 2001
October 2001		September 2001

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Brave new world:

"U.S. discount retailer Target Corp, known for its innovative marketing, is staging a "model-less" fashion show in Manhattan next week that will feature holograms strutting down a runway in its merchandise instead of size-zero models." [link | via]
"New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence." [link | via]
"No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely." [link | via]
"Under the cloud cast by Steve Fossett's apparent accident, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic moves forward with the ambitious Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert." [link | via]
"Genetically modified plants that can break down pollutants may be an effective way to clean soil contaminated by industrial chemicals and explosives used by the military, according to scientists." link | via]
"The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan." [link | via]
"University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen �dark matter.� While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all." [link | via]

11:12:00 PM | 0 Comments | link