Do you belive in the power of the Troll?
What’ll Happen To The Bay Bridge Troll? This is a great little bay area local story. The steel workers repairing the Bay Bridge after the Loma Prieta earthquake took some of the scrap from destruction and had it cast into sculpture of a Troll. They welded it to the under […]
The Big Word Project
The Big Word Project wants you (thanks but not me) to buy words from them, at $1 a letter, that represent your web site. Your site then “represents” this word allowing you to define it. It’s supposed to “create a new tapestry of words …” or some such rubbish. They […]
Time Travel Mart
826LA, which is the Los Angles version of 826 Valencia, the famous San Francisco Pirate Store, had their opening recently and in keeping with the “store front” theme (see also the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store) they are a Time Travel Mart. Well done and quite clever. This is all from […]
A Day In US Air Traffic
I came across this really cool NASA movie that visualizes the air traffic data over the US for one day. I’d love to see this data superimposed with an index of CO2 and air pollution levels. [QUICKTIME https://www.almostscientific.com/facet24.mov 640 480]
SF Freeze This Weekend
I loved the Improve Everywhere freeze in Grand Central. This is a similar even in SF. It smacks of Me Too’ism but could still be fun and cool. At least it has a twists on it:
George Lucas In Love
Perhaps I’m a touch late on this one but I just saw it:
The Oligodynamic Effect: why doorknobs are brass
Did you know that ions of several metals including brass, copper, aluminum, iron, lead and silver are antimicrobial, that is, they kill bacteria. In fact brass is the the most antimicrobial of them all. According to the Wikipedia entry on the subject: Brass doorknobs disinfect themselves in about eight hours, […]
Biohazard Symbol History
A quick read with the who, when and why of
Finding: Tinfoil Helmets Actually Enhance Mind Control Beams Emitted From Government Satellites
 I knew it all along. On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
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A Minor History of Giant Spheres The Dyson Sphere Insideout Hypersphere The New Kilo Armillary Sphere
Rocket and Rituals: Part 2 — Sex and Rockets and Burning Man
Unlike Dark Mission, which appears to be several hundred pages of predictable conspiracy schlock, Sex and Rockets seem to promise an intriguing read. The introduction, by Robert Anton Willson, is itself worth reading if you have even a passing interest in Aliseter Crowley, Masons, psychadelics, American anarchism and, oh yeah, […]
Rocket and Rituals: Part 1 — Dark Mission
Today Boing-Boing posted a link to Feral House a non-fiction publisher of book whose themes are a swirl of sex, crime, conspiracy, satan and a touch of metal music. Two of their books, Dark Mission and Sex and Rockets, jumped out at me given my recent penchant for anything at […]
Submission #1
Steam Clock Important events that never occurred Dieselpunk A nice little slice of bullshit Dreams of Space Tick-Tok