- Mars Probe Wreckage Found
A disturbed crater at the impact site tells all.
- Ground Frozen Since Ice Age Thaws and Collapses
This might be cool to film at some point…
- Where Mars Microbes Might Lurk
How to look for life on Mars. You’ll probably be seeing a whole lot of Mars news on this site. That little planet is a bit of an obsession of mine.
- Apple, Intel Look to Improve PC-TV Link
They’re looking to develop a specification known as the Unified Display Interface to replace VGA.
- Stalin’s Planet of the Apes
Newly uncovered documents show that the Soviets were planning half-man, half-ape super-warriors.
- The Solar System Gets Crazier
There’s wacky shit going on in the Kuiper Belt.
- Young Girls Often Torture Barbie Dolls
The doll provoked rejection, hatred and violence.
I knew it! I fucking knew those dolls were evil!
- This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper.
This got me wondering: How do people behave in a world where the end is actually nigh? Sci-fi aficionados, Cold War moviemakers and Christian apocalyptics have mused over this for years, since they’ve assumed that the end of life would have a catalytic effect on the human spirit. In nuclear-war or alien-invasion films like The Day After or War of the Worlds, catastrophic attacks turn America into a landscape of venal looting and family togetherness—our best impulses mixed with our worst.
But after talking to several longtime players of Asheron’s Call 2, I’ve realized the end of a game world is less cataclysmic—and more subtle. The players aren’t dying in real life; they’re just being forced to disband. Their emotional state is thus more like the grief of an indigenous tribe that is being driven off its land by a megacorporation and is losing its way of life. It’s kind of like the villagers at the end of Fiddler on the Roof, forced by the czar to abandon their homes and scatter to the four winds.
- Robot Saves the Day at Radiation Lab
The funniest thing about this is that the article first came from Nature.com.
- The Robots Are Coming!
How to escape from homicidal robots. You know, for the Robot Wars.
- Ham Radio Hears Mars Orbiter
And yet I get shitty reception on my wireless networking? How does that work?
- Fuck Christmas
Well we’ve fucking had it. You want to play bullshit games and scream about how God’s fucking judgment is gonna come raining down on us if we don’t start watching our vocabulary? Go right the fuck ahead. But let me clue you in on something: fire and brimstone ain’t no deterrent for us. We’re not going to hell, assholes, we’re fucking in hell. We live with you.
Hat tip… I don’t remember. Just read it. It’s so funny and yet so true.
- Magnetic North Pole Drifting Fast
The Earth’s north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America so fast that it could end up in Siberia within 50 years.
- Bush calls the Constitution “just a goddamned piece of paper”
I haven’t found this story anywhere else, so its authenticity is dubious. Beware the pop-up ad, though.
- Apophis: 390m-wide asteroid could hit Earth in 2036
Well shit. We better fucking make sure this doesn’t hit us.
- Dalai Lama Gets Meditation Lesson
Article from Wired regarding the Dalai Lama’s (relatively) recent visit to Washington D.C.