“A Second View of the Mite Approaching the Gear Chain” One of the many photographs from the “Bugs On Devices” category in Sandia Labs’ MEMS image gallery. [via CoolGov]

The cephalopod plans for taking over the world have already been detected, but will no one take heed? Alaska has already fallen. More to the point, “jumbo flying squid” is the coolest name for any animal.

From somewhere in Long Beach

Greg was the guy that gave this bourgeois suburban Spacemen 3 freak from Orange County a chance to work in rock-n-roll and, well, my life hasn’t been the same. I hadn’t really communicated with him recently outside of the odd … Continue reading →

So I’m planning on taking a couple of weeks for the drive from Los Angeles to New York. Michael Gondry’s video for “Behind” makes the drive in 4 minutes and 1 second.

One last playlist before I pack up all the mp3s for the trip east. Awhile back one of the music magazines (Mojo perhaps?) ran a top 40 list of Los Angeles/California-themed songs. Most of the usual suspects were included (X, … Continue reading →

With the deaths of Christopher Reeve and Jacques Derrida in the news, the death of legendary spacecraft designer Max Faget’s got buried back a couple pages. His obituary is pretty amazing – designing just about everything that NASA flew from … Continue reading →

Congrats all around to everyone. The only way it could be better was if a b-list celebrity ran up to SpaceShipOne with a giant cartoon check for $10 million.