PeeJ posted this link to Jim Lavery’s weblog Neato.
Category: Cool
Link for myself
Twenty Science Fiction Novels that will change your life.
Star Wars: abridged by a 3 year old
I have to get my kids watching Star Wars
Space freighter given launch date
I never thought I’d live to see the day when the BBC News would have the headline: Space freighter given launch date Okay, it’s not quite as glamourous as all that but it’s still cool.
Short Stories
Jens Alfke pointed out The Loneliness Engine and also linked to his own We Had Black Boxes. Great stuff.
Strange Maps
This blog about strange maps is just fascinating.
Wii3D…VF….omfg…
Okay, I dig this.
Romero’s Blizzard
Very heavy snowfall overnight. Deeply uncharacteristic! ‘er indoors compared the ungainly gait and broken formations of the snow walkers to the shambling undead today. See why I love her?
Screenplays
Slashfilm has the Black List. The list is compiled with a poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2007 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year.
How to get through the day…
Essential tips for enhancing your enjoyment at work at the expense of productivity I couldn’t survive without this list.
The Golden Age of Retro-Future
From Dark Roasted Blend: This is the start of a new series, collection of the most inspiring & hard-to-find retro-futuristic graphics. We will try to stay away from the well-known American pulp & book cover illustrations and instead will focus on the artwork from rather unlikely sources: Soviet & Eastern Bloc “popular tech & science”…
Roman Road Maps
They didn’t have a GPS system back in those days. BBC News link it is an intensely practical document, more like a plan of the London Underground than a map. “The red lines are the main roads. Every so often there is a little hook along the red lines which represents a rest stop –…
Passive/Aggressive
Wow. Am I passive/aggressive? I don’t think so. Sure, I use sarcasm a lot, often in a humourous and self-deprecating way, but am I passive/aggressive? Passive/Aggressive is defined as being reluctant compliance with passive disruption. Such as if you’re forced to cook the dinner, you burn it so that no-one will ask you again. How…