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Terminator, the musical?
The Titan Robot Show
The first part scared the crap out of me. More here on their cool website: http://www.cyberstein.co.uk/
Oh, and remember the last monster created with a named that ended in stein? Not an auspicious beginning…
The Afghan Refugee
One of the most amazing pictures I’ve ever sceen. It’s of a 12 year-old girl who fled Afghanistan to Pakistan in 1983 during their war with the Soviets. Here’s the article that goes with it. Of course, this is yesterday’s news. But some things are worth revisiting.
Move over Internet, here comes the Grid
This geeked me out today.
THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.
The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.
Can you imagine that game world? Can you imagine a world that’s an actual world? Where adventurers set out to find fortune and encounter all sorts of nasties being played by hundreds of thousands of other people around the globe?
Dude.
Zing, Baby!
Free stories from Year’s Best Fantasy 9 anthology!
Tor is posting ALL the stories in the Year’s Best Fantasy 9 anthology (published summer 2009) for FREE. Mine was in the second installment, but you can already get it here. What you want are all the others! For example, installment 3 has one of my favorite short stories I read last year: Kij Johnson’s “26 Monkeys and the Abyss.”
Here’s how to get them.
- Go to the Tor.com site.
- Scroll to the bottom of that post and click the “Year’s Best Fantasy 9” tag to see all of the installments.
- Click on each installment and download!
Up & Over It does “We Speak No Americano”
Because today is a special and you deserve to smile.
Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding
Film by: Jonny Reed
Music: “We Speak No Americano” by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
Up & Over It: http://www.facebook.com/upandoverit or http://www.upandoverit.com
Produced by: http://puckproductions.comIt appears “We Speak No Americano” by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP samples the 1956 song “Tu vuò fà l’americano” (You pretend to be American), a Neapolitan language song by Italian singer Renato Carosone.
If someone with some language skillz can translate, please do so in the comments.
Health Care Solutions
I am a big believer in free-market solutions. However, I’m not a big believer in Wild West capitalism. Government plays a vital role in helping us prevent capitalistic abuse. But what’s the right role of government in health care?
I found that both John Stossel’s 20/20 “Sick in America” and a recent report from Safeway give brilliant insight into the situation and possible solutions. Enjoy!
Sick in America Part 2
Sick in America Part 3
Sick in America Part 4
Sick in America Part 5
Sick in America Part 6How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs from the Wall Street Journal