Sorry about the lack of blogging, folks. My host’s servers have been a touch sick all day. I blame swine flu. But please, let me make it up to you. Come to the Bad Dog Theatre @ 8PM for Recession-ame Street, and I will do my level best to entertain you. It’s a riff on [...]
Previews of the design for the forthcoming Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series have hit the web. And they look pretty good: I’m not sure what I think about the peekaboo elevator picture box thing. Also, this will fit on no known DVD storage shelf, requiring it to be displayed prominently on your coffee table to [...]
A new study by a group of (I can only assume) balding researchers suggests that individuals who experience hair loss can get a little fragile. Behold: Many of those with hair loss reported no emotional problems, but a “significant minority” were found to be at risk of serious psychosocial consequences – including depression, anxiety, lower [...]
Here is the timid West, cloning is a source of continuous ethical angst. Mention the word at a party, and watch everyone dissolve into bouts of anxious hang-wringing, sweating and spectacular vacillation. And then there’s South Korea. That country is like the Wild West of genetics. No task is too complex or morally ambiguous for [...]
I’ve bashed Michael Bay’s Transformers movies on this blog a few times, mostly because he has so far failed to recapture my deep, unabashed love for the original animated cartoon. It’s a high bar, I’ll admit. But he might be getting closer. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen screenwriter Roberto Orci confirmed that Frank Welker, voice [...]
In his important and highly practical book, The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks describes the crossbow as the ultimate long-range zombie killing weapon. And this is the ultimate crossbow: Yes, with the PSE Tac-15 in hand, I would actually welcome the zombie apocalypse. Oh, and just in case you’re interested, Brooks’ new book, The Zombie [...]
I moved house this weekend, and my new keys came on a fancy keychain made out of some sort of high-density nylon. No doubt designed for the aspiring urban woodsman, it also featured a tiny compass. And it got me thinking: why in the Hell do product designers put tiny compasses on things that don’t [...]