Categories
Oddities

Two Towers

It was so obvious that a search for info about the latest Peter Jackson movie (saw it on Wedensday night, at midnight. It rules) would turn up something like this: Two Towers Protest.

Fortunately the Israeli translator who revised the Hebrew version of LOTR changed the name of the second book to the two spires (or something like that)…

Categories
Blather

No Job No More

I was given notice by my boss one week ago (shortly after posting my last post, in fact). As of the end of the month, I will be unemployed (like many fine and talented people I know, actually).

I was holding off posting this until I got around to polishing my CV, but since I still haven’t done that, I might as well get this out of the way, so that whatever friends read my blog will know about it.

Categories
short Software and Programming

DHTML Menus from lists

gazingus.org – Using Lists for DHTML Menus

Categories
Science Fiction and Fantasy

Lick That Pic

Wired :The brain doesn’t care where visual input comes from. So why not see with a camera jacked into your tongue? (from Aharon Sheer).

So, does this mean you don’t need to rewire your brain to build a proper neural interface? This makes some of the stuff in Red Rain sound more feasible. Neat.

Categories
Roleplaying

Fortean Bounties

Fortean times links from GMS: The God Machine: …In 1854, an experiment far stranger than anything in Mary Shelley’s novel took place when a New England clergyman married science and spiritualism in an attempt to build nothing less than a god.

Also, speculation about a black magic conspiracy behind The Son of Sam.