Monthly Archives: February 2012

antichamber

Posted on Wednesday, 29th February 2012 by

When I read some of the comments to this indie-game my breath caught, ↵because I feared I would have to launch a copyright lawsuit ;-) Anyway, since ↵Minecraft, ↑Antichamber is the indie-game I am looking most forward to. There’s a … Continue reading →

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desert mecha

Posted on Tuesday, 28th February 2012 by

The above 3D-scene, called ‘Desert Lion,’ was done by Andrew March in 2004 and since then sat on my HDD. Andrew used the model of the Cougar ↑mech (which at least dates back to 2002, but you can still ↓download … Continue reading →

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what was below?

Posted on Monday, 27th February 2012 by

zeph’s pop culture quiz #17 The screencap got a bit dark, so I’ll explain: A man is pulling at an iron ring to open a trapdoor. What does he expect to be down there, what was below the trapdoor?  As … Continue reading →

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colossus

Posted on Sunday, 26th February 2012 by

But—and it was a very large but—his had been the guiding brain, the one with the big overall concept, the vision. And that was the one that counted. (Jones 1966: chpt. 1)     Briefly he considered his future, but … Continue reading →

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lego think tank

Posted on Saturday, 25th February 2012 by

↑Think tank is a slang term used to describe a robotic weapons platform that makes use of artificial intelligence to enhance its abilities. Most of the think tanks portrayed in ↑Ghost in the Shell (manga, films, and series), along with … Continue reading →

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lego blade runner

Posted on Friday, 24th February 2012 by

↑Legohaulic has recreated the cast of ‘↑Blade Runner‘ (Scott 1982) ↑as lego minifigs. From left to right: Leon (Brion James), Pris (Daryl Hannah), Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), Gaff (Edward James Olmos), Rick … Continue reading →

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afrocyberpunk

Posted on Thursday, 23rd February 2012 by

Finally Africa! In 2005 I learned that cyberpunk literature offers a platform for the issues of Latin America (Toledano Redondo 2005), and five years later the existence of a ↵literary steampunk scene in Brazil (Lori-Ribeiro & Silva 2010) came to … Continue reading →

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human or mutant?

Posted on Wednesday, 22nd February 2012 by

Radiolab carries a wonderful ↑podcast on mutant rights: Reporter Ike Sriskandarajah tells Jad and Robert a story about two international trade lawyers, Sherry Singer and Indie Singh, who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. “Dolls,” … Continue reading →

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astronaut mike mullane

Posted on Tuesday, 21st February 2012 by

He promised it ↵in a comment here, and made it true: The podcast ↑JetHead live with astronaut Mike Mullane is online. ↑Mike Mullane is a former NASA astronaut and author of the book ↑Riding rockets: The outrageous tales of a … Continue reading →

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where is it?

Posted on Monday, 20th February 2012 by

zeph’s pop culture quiz #16 In which city is the street in the picture? All right, I confess, the screencap is not from a recent movie, but it has a direct connection to a very recent one. And for those … Continue reading →

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