Here’s my idea of what happened to ↑Malaysia Airlines Flight 370—from top to bottom the panels are taken from pages 15, 16, and 20 respectively of ‘Flight 714’ (Hergé 1968 [1966-1968]). HERGÉ (aka REMI, GEORGES [PROSPER]). 1968 [1966-1968]. ↑Flight 714 … Continue reading →
You might perhaps have noticed that during the past weeks the overall number of entries here at xirdalium has substantially increased. Including this one, there now are 1058 posts all in all. This is due to my finally having imported … Continue reading →
↑Portal MedienGewalt (in German) is a huge annotated and structured link collection on the ‘media and violence’ issue, including computergames, of course. Lots of academic links. via entry at 2R
Continue reading →This ↑BBC story would be a hell of a lot easier to judge, if it had been published tomorrow: “Brain chip reads man’s thoughts A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to be fitted with a … Continue reading →
Last summer photographer ↑Timothy Allen met Alexander Ivanov, a colleague of his, at a photo festival in Bulgaria: ‘Back then he showed me some pictures of what looked to me like a cross between a flying saucer and Doctor Evil’s … Continue reading →
↑CIMINI, GIACOMO. t.b.a. ↑The Nostalgist [short film]. London: Wonder Room Productions. WILSON, DANIEL H. 2009. ↑The Nostalgist. Tor.com 28 July 2009. Available online. via ↑entry at ↑boingboing
Continue reading →Yul Brynner always has been one of my all-time favourite actors. So it is hardly surprising that his impersonation of the Gunslinger in ‘↑Westworld‘ (Crichton 1973) is one of my favourite robots. Marking the naturalistic android to be artificial only … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #58 It will be a matter of seconds to identify the movie from which the above screencap stems. But, believe it or not, the building at the left was inspired by a real-life one. Where is … Continue reading →
Just in case you think that I am not doing anything sensible—here’s my house in ↑Minecraft … quite a mad-scientist hideout, isn’t it?
Continue reading →zeph’s pop culture quiz #26 What is inside the armoured car so strongly guarded by the coppers? The rule is that every Monday I post one pop culture quiz question, but as the last times, and today, they were solved … Continue reading →