Is this meant to be ironic:
Spotted being worn by a hip young Twilight actor at the recent Armageddon nerdfest in Melbourne. Yes, there were lots of people in costumes from Batman, Stargate, Yu-Gi-Yoh, whatever, but these shoes are what really amazed me.
I honestly can’t tell whether they’re serious. Or how you’d operate them. And the [...]
Apparently, a good thing to do with blogs is rant about things that annoy you. And I’m all in favour of doing good things with blogs…
By the way, today’s theme is – vaguely – science.
The other night NASA smashed a space probe into the Moon. Liking both astronomy and large explosions, I naturally looked it [...]
Or at least so claimed the graffiti I saw on the way to work this morning.
But is that really true? My first guess would be “of course not!” But I’m having trouble thinking of txtspk that rhymes better than “C U L8TR L E G8TR”.
Can anyone suggest a better one? A mobile limerick, perhaps? Or [...]
Dear diary,
Sorry it’s taken me so long to write – my stars, you wouldn’t believe the things I’ve been doing.
Actually, I remember back in the days of snail mail (not that they called it that then, but you young kids wouldn’t know anything about it) that I used to start all my letters that way. [...]
So I recently checked out the Melbourne Solar System, a nifty scale model of our little corner of the galaxy. The sun is down near the St Kilda Marina (itself pretty cool, what with the whole boats on shelves thing) and Pluto is 5.9 km away in Port Melbourne. Overall, an excellently nerdy and highly [...]
If you recall from my last post, I’ve started putting some of my old films up on the Tube of You. The latest addition is the animation Nose Runner, submitted to Tropfest in 2007, starring Space Girl and a robot who looks suspiciously like a Volvo:
The voice of Space Girl was [...]
OK, so I’m slowly getting this site back together. My comics are coming back online one by one, but I’m also putting up some information on my short films. Just in case, you know, anyone cares.
Of course that’s also a fantastic excuse for a self-indulgent trawl through my old work. Ah, the days when I [...]
Just to follow up on Thursday’s post about voodoo science, and the seven signs thereof, the big one is that “the discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work”.
On that theme, what do you think are the chances that the 9/11 Truth people will accept the results of the [...]
Thanks to Thinking is Dangerous, I recently learned of Bob Park’s 7 warning signs of bogus science. These are basically a set of features that most pseudoscience, flim-flam, gobbledy-gook, wibble-wobble, whatever, has in common:
The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.
The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her [...]
So, to continue my recent theme, what are Higgs Bosons anyway? The people want to know.
The best explanation I’ve ever heard (and thanks for the reminder, Alison) is that by Professor David J. Miller of University College, London. So best, in fact, that in 1993 it won him the grand prize of a bottle of [...]
