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BLDGBLOG: Comparative Planetology: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

 

Source: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/comparative-planetology-interview-with.html

Will it blend?

Survey says yes.

What a 'mo

What a 'mo, originally uploaded by JamesA.

Big Gun

Big Gun, originally uploaded by JamesA.

A picture from Hellboy 2.

Changing priorities

There once was a time when the priority in a lecture theatre was to grab either the seat closest to the door or furthest from the lecturer.

These days it seems the priority are the ones closest to a power point.

It just seems funny.

Heh

Coffee/Portal

One For Adam

The World According to Bender

Protecting you from serious crime...

Protecting you from serious crime..., originally uploaded by JamesA.

..by hiding behind bus stop signs.

Damn those Ninja Yakuza families!!!

A list that gives a giggle

Star Trek's 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures

Screwed Up

A definition of screwed up: Last night, it's 30 degrees in my lounge room and I am covered toe to nose by a blanket and I was still shivering.

R2D2 Translator

I wonder how accurate this is.

Uuhhhh.... what????

I don't understand it.  Just watch.

heh

Who Edits Who

Student’s program sends PR chaos in Wiki-scandal

Snippit:

One American student sent major corporations, governments and even the Vatican on the defensive after coming up with Wikipedia Scanner, a software program that reveals who changed Wikipedia entries.
...
- Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate
...
- The Vatican edits Irish Catholic politician Gerry Adams page
...
- Scientology removes criticism and negatives article from Scientology page

Full Article Here

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F@ck you iTunes

As some may know, I have an iPod.  And while some people (cue GrantRantTM) may find them not much to write home about, I think they're a pretty damn good portable music player.

As a consequence of having an iPod, without having to resort to all kinds of technical tom-foolery, you're forced to use iTunes in order to load music of any kind onto it.  And where the iPod does a damn good job of being a music player, iTunes does the complete opposite as a media player (especially in windows).  It's dog-slow, frequently stuffs up meta-data and it's video playback often bogs down a pc so badly it sounds more like a stutterer trying to recite the lyrics to Theophilus Thistler.

Oh yes, and it also has a really annoying habit of randomly bringing itself to the front when the program is minimised or, even better, randomly restarting itself after you've closed it down. 

Why do these quirks matter you ask?

Last week, when my mouse decided to up and die on me for no apparent reason, I was forced to try and discover how to navigate a point and click interface, without the ability to point or click.  It was quite fun.

While Windows is possible (although painful) to navigate by using a keyboard, some programs which don't want to behave with the OS, don't let you use all of the features you could otherwise access with a mouse.  iTunes is one of those programs (shocking I know for a piece of software written by Apple.  Who would have thought...).  I needed to download an individual podcast to take to work (a Chaser broadcast if you must know).

iTunes won't let you tab to navigate to the pane where you can select individual items to download by using the keyboard.  The only way to download it that I could discover was by switching on the option hidden in a series of submenu's that tells iTunes to automatically download a new podcast when it was available.  So I switch that on, download the required podcast, shut down iTunes and head off to work.

So what you ask?  Where is all of this going?

Remember where I mentioned earlier that iTunes has a really annoying habit of restarting itself after you've closed it down?  Well, after I went to work, it did.  And seeing that it the option switched on to automatically download new podcasts, it proceeded to do so.  Now normally this would not be a problem, but last week I had subscribed to a HD video podcast for curiosities sake to see how well it outputted from my iPod onto my television.  So the randomly restarted iTunes proceeded to grab the latest episode.

And the one before that.

And the one before that.

And the one before that.

And the one before that.

And the..... well - I'm sure you get the drift by now.

These video's average a file size of between 350MB to 470MB.  And seeing as they're stored on an akamai server, they're being downloaded at a really fast rate.  How fast?  Well, in the time I was at work, iTunes managed to download 10GB's worth of video.  That's right - 10GB.

Not surprisingly, that exceeded my remaining quota for the month.  Itunes did this in 7 hours.  So, since last Thursday, I've been shaped at 64k until December 01.  So f@ck you iTune for doing this to me.  You and your sh!th@use Apple software can go scr@w yourselves.

Did Grant ever get bored and do this?

Harrison Ford is a god???

Read more here.

This will be awesome

So long as they don't take a submarine to Tibet...

IP v6?...all we need to do is switch to IP vCSI

Of course there are good reasons why they would choose an IP like that...but, when you can pull a professional family portrait from a single pixel of a frame from a 10 year old, dodgy, black and white security camera, who knows what sort of computer technology CSI: Batman Miami, has access to?

What the heck is going on with the pancake and baking powder war?

Does anyone care to clarify this?

For Grant's information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake

(PS: Raising Agents like Baking Powder are mixed into Self Raising Flour... thats why its self raising)

Vote 1 Hypocrisy

Vote 1 Hypocrisy, originally uploaded by JamesA.

My gas guzzling 4wd is powered by 100% natural b@llsh!t. That's how you can tell I care for the environment.

Tasteless Hero?

Urban Grafitti

Urban Grafitti 01, originally uploaded by JamesA.

Amazing what some people get up to.

heh

Boredom takes over

Pancakes with Plain Flour

http://www.abc.net.au/northcoast/stories/s1853397.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/basilpancakswithsuga_66226.shtml
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/7643/classic+pancakes

There you go Adam, Pancakes with PLAIN flour.
Blow it out your arse.

Hair Spray...mmmm...tasty

Man drinks hairspray in store; busted for shoplifting (Full article here)

A man was arrested for shoplifting two bottles of White Rain Hair Spray, which he drank...The store’s loss prevention officer told a deputy that he had been watching the man for a few weeks to try and catch him...

Sneaky

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/article/?id=47273

Huge Crowd...

Compared to last year's test.

There is no god

Witness this.

Best game reviews evar

Drugs can't hurt you....

Ummm... was that in english?

Buffalo Theory

An interesting rant.

Hey Crackhead

My don't we look happy

104-0487_IMG, originally uploaded by JamesA.

Those wacky Russians

THE EKЯANOPLAN.  I think it looked pretty cool.

NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fox housing British 'Spaced'.

You know that they will just stuff it up.

Vista FUD

Relating a conversation between Nick, Adam and myself on Saturday.

Clarification here, here, here and here.

I want one of these

the Asko Home Pub.

Got this one yet?

It's even motorised.

Alka-Seltzer Suit

Wired's Interview with Ridley Scott

Read the full transcript

Similar Difference

Merchandise I WON'T be purchasing

Now I am huge fan....but there is no way I am dressing my child in this

heh

More here

heh

Best Interview Evar

Angels, Kung-Fu and Guns?

Oh my.

Craigslist Goldigger Gets Owned By Millionaire

Best put-down evar.

Good Bioshock review

I Hate...

...going to the chemist to buy some cough mixture and being treated like a bl**dy criminal just because the mixture I want to buy contains a minute trace of psuedoephedrine!!!

Perception test

I'm going to continue the rest of this post in white text so as not to unduly influence the experiment.

According to this article, the spinning image should come out as looking like she's going anti-clockwise if you're left-brain-oriented and clockwise if you're right-brain-oriented. And looking at the list of characteristics they give for the two, I'd be heavily a left-brain person. But I see it going clockwise. And here's the thing - I've tried reversing it in my head, to interpret it so that she's spinning anti-clockwise, but I can't do it. So is this test bugged? Does anyone see it as her spinning anti-clockwise?

"Rationalize like a Pirate" Day

Pirating is Green

This is a phone ad???

David Letterman Rocks!!!

Because of things like this.

Greatest interview evar!

Not your typical USB Drive

Avatars and their Creators

The few pictures in this small preview are rather interesting.
Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators

Book Details:
Alter Ego by Robbie Cooper
Introduction by Julian Dibbell,
interviews and glossary by Tracy Spaight

Hardcover (with lenticular double image)
160 pages, 140 color photographs
305x145mm
ISBN 10:1-905712-02-2
Chris Boot Books

heh

WoW character sells for nearly $10,000

It's one way to make money

Very cool

http://www.vanishingpoint.ca/tailrace.html

What does $207 million look like?

How about this.

Bugatti Veyron: World's SECOND Fastest Production Car

Full Article Here

The previous record holder for the fastest production car in the world is one of the most searched for vehicles on the Internet, a now legendary super car thanks to its fire-breathing quad turbo 16-cylinder engine, the Bugatti Veyron.

But now the record holder has changed hands, to the Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo, which is built by Shelby Supercars. This super car featuring a somewhat retro 1990s style bested the Bugatti Veyron's top speed by 3.11 miles per hour, posting a top speed of 257.11mph. Using the Australian standard, that's an eye watering 414km/h!

I'll bet KJA's already offered to finish Book 12...

R.I.P. Robert Jordan

Who wants a knife?

 

You can buy it here

Would you shop here?

Incoming!

One For Josh

Clicky-clicky

Wierdest response you've ever gotten when telling someone you play D&D

This is a short but very interesting read.

What do people think?

Feed me please

Just testing the new version of Live Writer and its Flickr integration.

Best use of a Black Sabbath song evar?

Make up your own mind.

Want to see this NOW!

Time to buy another shirt

The Cold War is back!

UK jets intercept eight Russian bombers

Britain's air force has scrambled four Tornado warplanes on Thursday to intercept eight Russian long-range bombers, the Ministry of Defence says.
...
The Tupolev Tu-95, codenamed "Bear" by NATO, is Russia's equivalent of the US B-52 bomber and is a Cold War icon.
...
The sorties by Russian bombers appeared to the latest of the regular long-range patrols that President Vladimir Putin announced last month would be resumed after a gap following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The great unwashed masses at South Bank

The great unwashed masses at South Bank, originally uploaded by JamesA.

Public Service Announcement

New IT Crowd is in the wild.

Here you go James

Ha!

Virgins in Heaven

Ferrari 250 GTO Replica

The Ferrari 250GTO is one of the best looking Ferrari's ever, a convertible 250 GT California was featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
This is a Ferrari 250GTO replica based on a Datsun 280Z. Looks pretty good.

Irony: an example.

Things not to wear to a emergency ward in Alabama after you get shot/stabbed.

A simple answer to a rhetorical question

I followed a banner ad to what was purportedly a science book, called "The Final Theory".

Parts of its blurb:

What if Newton and Einstein were both wrong
about gravity being either an attracting force or
warped spacetime? What if Special Relativity and
Quantum Mechanics are misguided abstractions,
with even electric charge, magnetism and light
sizably misunderstood today?

...

What if all this was happening right now -- exposed
in a groundbreaking new science book -- with a
wealth of compelling answers that replace many
time-honored beliefs upon which today's science
status-quo depends? Would you hear about it from
the scientific community? Would its existence even
be acknowledged by our scientists, either privately
or publicly? Would those invested in an education
and career based on today's scientific understanding
want to know about it? Would they want you to?

The answer, plainly and simply, is 'yes'. Scientists, as a group, do not have a vested interest in keeping people ignorant, they do not have any reason to cling to theories that are clearly not supported by the evidence, and they only reason they would advocate one model over another is if it is clearly more correct. The 'science status quo' is a myth - it's constantly under attack by scientists, because the tearing down of current thinking allows it to be replaced by more correct thinking. Which means this book is clearly written by a dribbling moron who has no clue about science, and I would rate it as ludicrously expensive toilet paper. I would call upon the publishers of this tripe to put a video on YouTube apologising sincerely for their grievous error in disseminating this crud into the world.

Dungeons & Dragons to get Fourth Edition

More here 

Things you can't afford

Top 3 World’s Most Expensive Beer 

For those serious about paintball

It's decided: SCO Lost.

Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!

My week

One Car, Three Windscreens, Four Days.
I put my car in to have the windscreen replaced with the factory-backed car yard I bought it from.

Monday: Original, delaminating windscreen replaced. Did not seal correctly.
Tuesday:Second windscreen (the one put in on Monday) removed, cleaned, reinstalled. Did not seal correctly.
Wednesday:Second windscreen (the one put in on Monday) removed, cleaned, reinstalled, again. Did not seal correctly, again.
Thurdsay: Different company asked to do the windscreen. Second windscreen (the one put in on Monday) cracked on removal, Third windscreen installed. Sealed correctly.

So now my car is on its 3rd windscreen and has had windscreens installed 5 times...all under warranty.

Minesweeper: The Movie

heh

Ugly covers

So I'm fiddling around with an app for Facebook which allows you to list books you've read, and I'm adding a bunch of Terry Pratchett books. This program defaults to searching Amazon.com for the books you've read. And it strikes me - god the American covers for pretty much all of the Discworld books are dog ugly.

Compare the two. Which do you prefer?

Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever

Original Article Here
Some examples:

10) Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea."
7) Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.
2) General Motors had a very famous fiasco in trying to market the Nova car in Central and South America. "No va" in Spanish means, "It Doesn't Go".

Looks cool

It's a 3d sculpture.

Kevin Smith lays the smack-down

Very funny.

Hovercrafts can't hover over steel grates.

Why you should never buy a Chinese vehicle

BTW: this (the Jiangling Landwind X6) scored a 0 in the 5-star Euro crash test...the only vehicle in 20 years (or so ) of testing to achieve this auspicious award.