http://soreeyes.org Sun, 11 May 2008 22:06:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spliced Krispies is Mark Vidler's latest collection of mash-ups. (Beware of track 5, Wouldn't It Be Nice To Have A Finger Of Fudge?, which features the strangest collision of musical styles I've heard in quite a while. There's even a video, if you're feeling brave.) [Via Word Magazine] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/11/a-finger-of-fudge/ Five Minute Iron Man: SCENE: Tony comes home, gets a cheeseburger and proceeds to send his company’s stocks diving faster than a GBU-500 when he announces he’s getting out of the weapons manufacturing business. Obadiah Stane: Gee, thanks for killing the company. Tony: No prob. Obadiah: I hope you aren’t going hippy on me ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/11/heroes-and-villains/ Swedish versus British Nightclubs: can you tell the difference? [Via plexi, posting at MetaFilter] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/11/stockholm-1-newcastle-0/ The teaser for Iron Sky is beautifully rendered, but I have a feeling the plot will leave something to be desired: Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/10/iron-sky/ From a complaint to the BBC: TERRY JONES’ MEDIEVAL LIVES TX Date: 04/05/08 "I feel that Terry Jones is using history to criticise the Pope. He is predictable and of poor quality." http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/10/history-is-bunk/ As impressive feats of data recovery go, recovering data from a hard disk from the Space Shuttle Columbia ranks right up there: It was one of the most iconic and heart-stopping movie images of 2003: the Columbia Space Shuttle ignited, burning and crashing to earth in fragments. Now, amazingly, data from a ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/09/data-recovery/ Sand: not as dull as you might imagine. [Via MemeMachineGo!] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/09/grains-of-sand-like-galaxies/ This gallery of photos of the Chaitén volcano in Chile is astonishing. It's the sort of weather you want to observe from a safe distance, preferably accompanied by a soundtrack of Metallica or Led Zeppelin. [Via MetaFilter] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/08/heavy-weather/ Having just watched the penultimate episode of Dexter season 1, I have only two things to say: Is season 2 out on DVD yet? I can't possibly wait the several months it'll take ITV to get round to showing it. ((While I'm on the subject, when are ITV going to get ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/07/dexter-2/ As is his habit, Cory Doctorow has made a copy of his latest novel, Little Brother, available for download free of charge under a Creative Commons license. [Via Whatever] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/06/little-brother-available-for-download/ At Ballardian, an account of a J G Ballard short story I'm going to have to track down: Ballard’s "The Index" (1977) is a damnably clever short "story", playing all sorts of games with the reader, with the act of writing, with existence itself. It tells the tale of a mysterious ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/05/the-index/ The Filmspotting podcast recently invited listeners to recast Ghostbusters. The best response by far was Ghostbusters: London Calling by a poster called frozenhamster: An Edgar Wright Film  In this highly anticipated sequel/re-imagining  of the original Ghostbusters England is about to get slimed! When ghosts get a passport to Europe they take London by storm ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/05/ghostbusters-remade/ Take five metronomes... [Via MetaFilter] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/05/synchronicity-2/ Farah Mendlesohn's review of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother makes me think I might have to add it to my to-read pile: As some people know, as part of an ongoing research project I've spent the past five years reading every science fiction book written for the Young Adult market I can ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/02/little-brother-reviewed/ The outgoing Italian government's parting shot was to publish details of every Italian's tax declaration on the web. Obviously I'm horrified that such a huge quantity of confidential information was released by a government in such a cavalier fashion, ((That said, there's a small part of me that is amazed ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/05/02/tax-online/ Nuru Rimington-Mkali's award-winning short film And I Refuse to Forget is a lovely piece of work: evocative, intriguing and to the point. [Via MetaFilter] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/30/after-sex-she-smells-a-bit-of-a-cia-financed-military-coup-in-latin-america/ Is it just me, or does Matthew Gibeault look remarkably unconcerned at having been arrested? [Via GromBlog] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/30/best-mugshot-ever/ I now know what a Schwerbelastungskörper is: It's a massive cylindrical block of concrete, standing 18 meters high and weighing in at 12,560 metric tons. It is located in the Berlin neighborhood of Tempelhof, where the eponymous airport is found. The name is translated as "heavy load-bearing body," although someone in the ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/29/things-i-learned-on-the-internet-33584-in-a-continuing-series/ Jeffrey Zeldman, musing on the vanishing personal site: Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of frequently updated content to which ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/29/the-vanishing-personal-site/ The Guardian's report on the travails of the Palm Jumeirah as residents move in and discover that the reality doesn't quite match the brochure's promises conjures up a picture of a thoroughly ... cosmopolitan ... neighbourhood: The lab rats in this experiment are a strange mix. They include England footballers, a ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/28/buyers-remorse-2/ Meet Johnny Crash. A crash test dummy is tired of his job and secretly wants to be a great magician. So he quits his job and decides to realise his dream. A very stylish animation. [Via VideoSift] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/27/johnny-crash/ When galaxies collide we get some really impressive pictures. (The first one on that page is especially fine.) As I understand it, one day a few billion years from now it'll be our turn. [Via Seed] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/27/when-galaxies-collide/ Bob Brady found himself sharing his motorcycle with a green Marco Polo. http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/26/and-he-hadn%e2%80%99t-even-lifted-a-leg/ After the Office of Government Commerce unveiled an allegedly embarrassing logo, an anonymous spokesman gave the following explanation: A spokesman for OGC said: "It is true that it caused a few titters among some staff when viewed on its side, but on consideration we concluded that the effect was generic to ... http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/26/a-firm-grip/ A postscript to this post from a couple of weeks ago: Using a semicolon is like barbecuing: I’m never quite sure I’m doing it correctly. [Via Fritinancy] http://soreeyes.org/archive/2008/04/25/like-barbecuing/