Moon Base Gingrichia

  • Jan. 28th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America | Motherboard:
Whenever Newt Gingrich talks about lunar colonies and conquering Mars — and he certainly wasn’t stingy on all that during last night’s GOP debate in Jacksonville — most onlookers see an opportunity for easy laughs and cheap mockery. But me? I ask myself, “What would Warren Ellis do?”

In addition to being an iconic comic book writer (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Red), cult novelist (Crooked Little Vein), futurist intellectual, and beloved Internet curmudgeon, Ellis is also a longtime proponent of space exploration. The 43-year-old Brit has written two acclaimed graphic novels on the topic (Orbiter and Ministry of Space), as well as an array of nonfiction essays.

One of the things I like about Warren Ellis is that as well as being master of saying the most entertainingly terrible things about stupid people in 140 characters or less, there's also a lot of serious thought and accumulated knowledge lurking behind the snarky, cynical internet persona and scraggling beard.
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Lolcats: surprise.

  • Jan. 27th, 2012 at 7:40 PM
funny pictures - We've replaced Gladys' regular towel with one filled with an angry cat.  Let's see if she notices the difference...

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Lolcats: tough love

  • Jan. 26th, 2012 at 9:26 PM
funny pictures - If you loves sumthin

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Between his work on The Temple of Doom and The Empires Strikes Back, the early '80s belonged to John Williams as far as film scores went..

 

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"... up in the sky! Is it a bird?"

  • Jan. 21st, 2012 at 10:43 AM
funny pictures - Happy Penguin Awareness Day!

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Lolcats: but why is the rum gone?

  • Jan. 18th, 2012 at 10:54 PM
funny pictures - Yum rum!

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Lolcats: A serious cat for serious times

  • Jan. 18th, 2012 at 6:48 PM
Certainly the most credible candidate so far...

funny pictures - This Are Serious Election an Stuffs

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Creationism revised.

  • Jan. 18th, 2012 at 2:29 PM
It occurred to me earlier that it would be hilarious if it turned out that God really did exist as a Great Beard In The Sky, and looked exactly like Charles Darwin.

A quick Photoshop hack later...



Which was intended purely as a bit of silliness, but if you want to read Meaning into it, then treat it as Darwin "creating" Man as a thinking, evolving organism rather than a Mini-Me built from a kit.


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Death Finger of The Aye-Aye Revisited

  • Jan. 18th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
BBC Nature - Aye-aye lemur 'heats up' its special foraging finger:
Madagascar's mysterious aye-aye warms up its extra-long finger when searching for dinner, scientists have found. The lemur, the world's largest nocturnal primate, taps its specialised middle finger on tree trunks to find nutritious beetle larvae. Studying thermal images, researchers found that the digit was colder than the others but warmed by up to 6C during foraging.
An amazing bit of evolution, or the sinister Aye-Aye channeling dark magic through its middle finger to bring death and dismay to the innocent?
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Flint

  • Jan. 17th, 2012 at 9:54 PM


Flint died earlier today, aged 6 years and a few odd months and the last of the pirate trio who'd been with me since December 2005. I think, in the end, age simply caught up with him. I didn't realise until I looked at the photo above how much ... not older he was looking, but certainly less young than he used to.

Flint was always the quietest and most inoffensive of the three budgies (although he was inclined to get a bit raucous when haranguing the lovebirds since Blackbeard died in 2010), and was also the one I expected to lose when he was much younger. He had to be treated twice for lipomas, even wearing the cone of shame to stop him biting at them, and always had a distinct preference for the budgie equivalent of fast food (millet spray & Trill seed) over anything that might actually be more balanced or nutritious ... although he did love to shred a piece of broccolini now and then, with enough enthusiasm to hurl bits of greenery three or four feet out of the cage. Sometimes he'd even deign to gnaw the end off a snow pea but, by and large, he was happiest with his carbs.

It wasn't a shock to find him on the floor of his cage when I came home tonight (I'd had an uneasy feeling for the last couple of days that it was coming), but it was still upsetting. I wrapped him carefully in a piece of the flannelette sheet I used for covering him at night, and buried him amongst the trees in the back garden as the sun went down, along with a piece of millet spray and his favourite mirror.

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