After having missed Dragon*Con two years in a row (Bad geek! Bad! No Firefly for you!) my wife and I will at last be heading down to Atlanta this year to revel in all that is most geeky, nerdy, and awesome. If you’ve never heard of Dragon*Con, you’re probably reading...
Argh! The Stock Market has crashed yet again! Would some one please fix it so it will stop doing that? I mean really — how am I supposed to get that 45% annual return that I need to actual retire when I’m at retirement age if the global financial market...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine has just announced that they will be publishing the Mammoth Book of Steampunk sometime next year. The book will include “A Serpent in the Gears,” by Margaret Ronald, from BCS #34,as well as stories authors Genevieve Valentine, Cat Rambo, Matthew Kressel, and Megan Arkenberg, and new...
This is a rather fantastic steampunk music video — it’s not a fan piece, but rather is the actual music video for Ben Lovett’s “Eye of the Storm”, from the album Highway Collection, and directed by Christopher Alender. So turn up the volume, click the HD resolution setting, blow it up...
As shocking as it may seem, the maker of the iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, iTunes, iWhateverTheMarketingDepartmentCameUpWithThisWeek has more cash and securities than the United States Treasury. As of Wednesday, July 27, the US Treasury had $73.768 billion in cash, while Apple Corporation had just over $76 billion in cash and...
A shocking report from scientists at the University of Leeds has revealed that Medieval knights were encumbered by heavy armor, and expended more energy than they otherwise would when not wearing heavy armor. http://vimeo.com/26667250 The study was performed on medieval reenactors for the Royal Armouries in Leeds, who donned full...
This is perhaps the greatest tribute to America’s Space Shuttle program that I have yet seen. An 8 minute video from Nature Videos (of the Nature science journal), it highlights every mission in the 30 year program–it’s good times and bad times, it’s triumphs and it’s tragedies. So turn up...
The Space Shuttle Atlantis landed this morning at 5:56am EDT on July 21, 2011, bringing to a close the halcyon days of Mankind’s exploration of space. Okay, I suppose it is a bit too harsh to say that this end’s the human exploration of space. The point is simply that,...
On July 20th, 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will touch down after a 12 day mission, marking the end of an era. Never again will one of these distinguished spacecraft grace the launch pad of Cape Canaveral, rocket through the sky above the Atlantic, or reach onward to that great...
Ubuntu 11.04 was released in late April, so this is not so much new news as it is belated news (I did not get around to updating my desktop until just recently). Ubuntu 11.04 is probably the most controversial release of Ubuntu to date, just do some quick Google searches...
