World Domination is Fun
Dr. Steel builds the robots, creates propaganda and issues manifestos. Plus, he has a band.
Shutting Down the Obvious
Rudy Rucker, on his excellent photoblog / scifi-stream- of-consciousness, talks about virtual reality (with responses): “My whole point is to wake people up to the fact that the physical, daily world is inconceivably rich.”
“Cured of Being a Tomboy”
Sleestak explores those strange girls in comics, tomboys from Romance comics to Disney.
“I’m a sucker for a girl with a metallic lower jaw”
Metal mandibles and elongating limbs–it’s the Top Ten Sexiest Comic Book Robots! (by Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery‘s Evan Munday)
Crochet Hypberbolics and the Nubbly Universe
At The Institute for Figuring, Dr. Donna Taimina brings “abstract mathematics into the realm of tactile experience” with her crocheted models of hyperbolic space. (Model galleries are along the sidebar).
Battlefield Asia
Looking for movies that combine big battles with the pain of Chinese history? How about: The Warlords, with Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro; the rape-free Mongol, with Tadanobu Asano as Temujin/Genghis Khan; An Empress and the Warriors, with Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen and Leon Lai; and […]
The Cultural Gutter 