Greetings Programs! As you have no doubt been informed by the bits dispatched by the MCP, the final build deployment of Tron: Legacy looms imminent. Stand-by for primary instructions from your Users regarding the availablity of access lines to the Grid, which we anticipate shall open on December 17th, 2010....
I’ve just finished the migration of my blog (previously hosted at WordPress.com) to this server, mwchase.com, and have full merged and integrated all of the contents of Meta-Earth that I intend to keep here. Basically, this is now my official “blogging” site, although I really don’t like that word, so...
The other day I switch all my web sites from a shared hosting provider to VPS hosting at Linode. There are thousands of Linux VPS providers, the most famous of which is Rackspace because of all their television commercials, but within the developer community Slicehost (now a subsidiary of Rackspace)...
The United Nation is set to appoint Mrs. Mazlan Othman, the current Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (or UNOOSA), to serve as Earth’s official ambassador in the event of extraterrestrial contact. Until now, no one person had been designated for this task, and the exact...
Well, it looks like the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft is finally coming the big screen, as the movie script of At the Mountains of Madness is currently being passed around the Hollywood big wigs. Let’s just hope Hollywood can do it right… And if they don’t, I’ll call Yog-Sothoth...
I truly regret the fact that I’m going to miss Dragon*Con 2010, and the insufferable agony is only exacerbated by the fact that there will be a motley presence of fellow steampunk frea… I mean geeks… attending this year. From the release on Dragon*Con’s Daily Dragon: “Don’t miss “The Steampunk...
Clint Wolf of the Satellite Show rants about the “Scope Creep” of Steampunk, and I heartily agree. I’ve been noticing this gradual scope creep too, and it has tended to give me a bit of an uneasy feeling these past few years. There seems to be such a profusion of...
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, who might as well be known as “Zahi the Great and Mighty Curator of Upper and Lower Egypt”, now has his very own television show. Premiering July 14th at 10pm on the History Channel, “Chasing Mummies” is basically...
OK, this is freaky funny. It’s a transformer owl. Actually, it’s a scary owl for exacerbating your inner owl fear (strigiphobia). The source, from Discovery Channel Animal Planet blog, is worth looking at too (though the video is obviously in Japanese, from some Japanese show). http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_oddities/2010/05/transformer-owl.html Check it out! It’s...
I just bought a new display screen for my computer. For a writer/programmer half-breed like myself, it’s important to have an excellent display to stare at day in and day out so that my eyes don’t shrivel up and disintegrate as though someone threw a beaker full of concentrated fluorine...
