Sherlock Holmes and the Tolling Bell
For those few who aren’t familiar with it, the Sonic Society out of CKDU in Halifax, Nova Scotia acts as a showcase for the best in modern...
Hayao Miyazaki lays down the law!
Japanese Animator Hayao Miyazaki delivered a verbal thumping to a recent interviewer (who was spending more time fiddling with his new iPad than doing this job from...
Yesterday’s Trains of the Future
Everyone has their idea of a romantic way to travel, and for me it’s always been the train. I guess it’s the feeling of both nostalgia and...
Hollywood Accounting
So, apparently Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix made $929 Million dollars, and still managed to lose money. Poor Harry! I guess the recession hits...
Very Cool French Webcomic Artist
Go check out the site for Bouletcorp, and while you’re there both play with the nifty site and check out his webcomics besides the parody I linked...
What happened while Americans slept.
As a global traveler myself, I’ve always found it somewhere between amusing and annoying how mired in the 1960’s the North American view of the rest of...
Econo-Apocalypse in Cartoon Form
Some fascinating stuff in this great lecture. One bit that I wasn’t aware of was the idea that the US drive for home ownership comes from the...
Images of New Wellington
New Wellington is the Imperial Capitol World in my Twin Stars setting, a gas giant with a temperate layer of breathable oxygen that’s been colonized by humans....
Huston, we have a problem…
The worst case scenario in the Gulf Oil Crisis may in fact be the reality: http://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2010/06/worst_case_scenario_on_gulf_sp.php So what happens if this is true, and there’s no way...