The Internet is Dying.

Or at least I thought it was earlier. Turns out there was a major power outage in Soma, and it took out a big chunk of the net that was based there.


The Scoop
The News
The Drunk Employee Rumor
...which leads to Angry Mobs

Sunshine

It ain't perfect, it straddles too many lines (is it a character drama, or a disaster B movie?), it's ultimately derivative, and it's cursed with some silly dialog and plot points, but god damn if it ain't beautiful...

Blogs are for sharing unwanted opinions

Animals is the second best Pink Floyd album ever, and I will fight anyone who says different.

Space Madness

I like that space can still be terrifying in a Flash Gordon sort of a way:

Mysterious Cavern on Mars
It's a bit of a mystery how it's there, why it's so deep, and what caused it.

Hexagonal Storm on Saturn
A coworker tells me this is the reason for Colony Collapse Disorder in bees... see, all the bees are being recalled to Saturn...

Daily links to things what amuse or fascinate me.

The Future is amazing. Photosynth is a program (or an evil robot) that procedurally analyzes all photographs in the public sector tagged... say... Notre Dame. And then maps the data as a three dimensional model where you can find the angle and distance that every picture was taken from

Demonstration Video
Try it yourself (requires plugin)

Behold, my formidable web-presence!

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imeem
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Twitter
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YouTube
Blogger (Ha Ha)

I still don't know why I know why I have a blog...

But this seems as good a reason as any...

My Top Ten movies of 2006:

1) Fountain
2) Children of Men
3) Departed
4) The Proposition
5) The Prestige
6) A Scanner Darkly
7) Tristam Shandy
8) Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
9) Prairie Home Companion
10) Little Miss Sunshine

Honorable Mentions:
Brick
Miami Vice

Top Ten Albums of 2006

1. Gulag Orkestar / Lon Gisland EP by Beirut
2. Avalanche / Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens
3. Crane Wife by The Decemberists
4. Ys by Joanna Newsom
5. Destroyer’s Rubies by Destroyer
6. Letting Go by “Bonnie” Prince Billy
7. Return to Cookie Mountain by TV On The Radio
8. Eraser by Thom Yorke
9. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case
10. Ships by Danielson


Honorable Mentions:
The Way the Wind Blows by A Hawk and A Hacksaw
You in Reverse by Built to Spill
Everything All the Time by Band of Horses
At War with the Mystics by Flaming Lips
Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins