747-400 vs hippy car

Basement Jaxx - Take Me Back To Your House

There are dancing bears.

Arcade Reality

Best Treo Game Ever.

Orwell on Euphemism

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details.

I do not remember reading this essay before. It is brilliant.

Thanks to Guy...

MUJI is coming to NY!

This is fantastic news... I've been waiting for this ever since I read Pattern Recognition.

MUJI.

ESC 2007 | Switzerland | DJ Bobo - Vampires Are Alive

The creation of this video entails one of the worst combinations of music and money in the entire history of either.

Cavemen sitcom being worked on,

Supposedly an ABC pilot is in the works.  I hope this works out.

Yulia & Laura

Yulia & Laura
Originally uploaded by satmandu.

ComicCon Saturday.

Fillion as James Tiberius Kirk?

The Register suggests that Nathan Fillion (Serenity, Slither, Firefly, Angel, Drive) would be a better Kirk in the next Star Trek Movie (an original series prequel) than Matt Damon.

I for one could be easily convinced...

Besides, isn't there a rule that important Trek actors need to be born in the Commonwealth?

Fillion is from Edmonton.

Best Comic Ever

Some Music Should Not Be Used In Food Commercials

For instance, Wendy's commercial for the Mozzarella Lovers' Bacon Cheeseburger uses The Violent Femmes' song Blister in the Sun.

Some might think this is disturbing...

reliant robin

Why don't they show Top Gear in the states? A fantastic, fantastic clip...

Shades of Cake or Death?

Sweden's Penal Code lists the penalty for Murder 1 to be "ten years or life" imprisonment.

I bet they have a lower murder rate too.

And don't get me started about their gini coeff.

Robo Cat

Designing for Traffic

I went to the Museum of the City of New York's Robert Moses exhibit.

Robert Moses is arguably the single man respponsible for what NYC is today. He built several tunnels, bridges, Lincoln Center, and was a major backer of bringing the UN to NYC (beating out Philadelphia).

He also suggested several multilane freeways through Manhattan, across Canal, connecting the Holland Tunnel & the Brooklyn & Manhattan bridges, across Manhattan at 30th st, and even a non-freeway extension of 5th Avenue down through a newly former Washington Square Park, via Fifth Avenue South (neé West Broadway) and down to the new Canal St freeway.

Tony noted that the exhibit was completely crowded with people.

Perhaps if there had been an overhead expressway to alleviate congestion at a Moses Exhibit...

Haggard Now ``Completely Heterosexual''

So says the AP article.

Truly, it must be a miracle.

Err, or magic.

Ok. I'm done now.

Haggard Now ``Completely Heterosexual''

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 6, 2007

Filed at 9:59 a.m. ET

DENVER (AP) -- One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is ''completely heterosexual.''

Deepa's Groundhog Day Cake

Deepa's Groundhog Day Cake
Originally uploaded by satmandu.

YUM.

Singingfish?

Has anybody heard of this site?

It seems like a decent place to find music, with download links too...

Mo Star Trek Mo Problems

The beneficence of a roommate on the occasion of the holidays has resulted today in my acquisition of an entire collector's set of every Star Trek movie DVD.

Do I face the the collection end forward with Shatner, or end forward with Stewart.

Vexing, vexing problems...

Which science fiction writer are you?

I am: Gregory Benford A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.

Which science fiction writer are you?