That's style. Last night in Austin there was a showing of a remastered print of "The Wrath of Khan", to include a showing of ten minutes of the new "Star Trek" film. About a minute into "Khan", the film burned up and the house lights came back on....

( video )

Upcoming concerts:

Friday, 23 January: Jonathan Coulton with Paul and Storm
Saturday, 24 January: Vixy and Tony

These are beautiful.

The Antikythera mechanism has been in the news recently, having been studied, reconstructed, and finally understood as a work of engineering 1700 years ahead of its time.

I hadn't consciously remembered Heron of Alexandria, but his Formula is part of the high school geometry canon.

This is a neat bit of alternate history speculating on what might ( Read more... )

We went to refractednotion's belated birthday celebration last night, which entailed delicious chili, tasty drinks, "Spaced", and bad movies served on instant play from Netflix ( Read more... )

In the midst of Snowpocalypse 2008...

... cross-country skiers have been going by on the street all day
... a cop car just drove by playing the Charlie Brown Christmas album out of its PA speakers
... the balcony sliding door has frozen shut
... we have beef stroganoff joyful_storm made from scratch ( Read more... )

Quick, go look while the time vortex is still open!

Washington Post: Ground War Starts, Airstrikes Continue As U.S. Keeps Focus on Iraq's Leaders
KUWAIT CITY, March 20 -- U.S. and British ground forces punched into Iraq across a broad front tonight after a booming artillery barrage, seizing territory along the Kuwaiti border with only modest ( Read more... )

necronomipr0n (n): erotic Lovecraftiana, especially through an electronic medium.

From a private e-mail list ( Read more... )

( Read more... )