Monthly Archives: August 2008

Palin

After running across the Vogue photos of Governor Palin I have to admit that sometimes the Photoshop jobs just illustrate themselves.

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Graham Day: Last Man Standing

Twenty-three years ago I ran across an album called Revenge Of The Prisoners by some paisley-looking bunch of Brits called The Prisoners. Any band naming themselves after my favorite cult TV show was well worth the five bucks for the … Continue reading

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links for 2008-08-20

Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the Worlds Stephenson update as Anathem nears release. (tags: neal.stephenson science.fiction)

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links for 2008-08-18

RoboCop becomes a weapon of mass instruction | Peter Weller | Pop Culture News | News Buckaroo Banzai (well Peter Weller) is now a Roman architecture and fine arts professor at Syracuse Univ. (tags: architecture film science.fiction)

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R.I.P. Duke Of New York

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My iPhone knows Motörhead

I’m incredibly pleased to discover that my iPhone knows to put in the umlaut over the second “o” in Motörhead. [via ILX]

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Mad scientist mansion

Spotted just off I-70 in Vail, Colorado: The steampunk backlash (and backlash to the backlash) might be going full-bore right now, but that’s not stopping this guy from building this amazing copper-roofed mansion with built-in observatory. I can only hope … Continue reading

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