- Zombies vs Ninjas
- Ukiyo-e rice
- Dancing Cockatoo (thx to Glen)
- Augmented Reality
- Best dream ever? (thx to Myers)
- St. Petersburg Paradox
- Tales of the Black Freighter
- Woolly Thinking (thx to Lex)
- Periodic Table of Typefaces
- Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds. - Got his eye on you
Month: March 2009
Computer Game Covers
In a similar vein to these and these – computer games reimagined as book covers.
Helix Nebula
This photo on the BBC website reminded me of getting the Encyclopedia of Stars and Planets for my ninth or tenth birthday.
It’s ridiculous to think that the inner disc alone is 32 trillion kilometres across. The diameter of our Sun is 1.3 million kilometres so this thing is 24 million times bigger than the Sun.
It’s such an unfathomable size – any comparison is utterly meaningless: our Sun is to the inner disc of the Helix Nebula as a garden pea is to the Earth. I can’t even hold the twin concepts of the pea and our planet in my mind at the same time.
The diameter of the outer ring of the nebula is over three times that of the inner ring.
Anatomical sculpture
Terminator: Salvation
Aforementioned Terminator trailer:
New Star Trek Trailer
The new Star Trek trailer’s up – I think of this Summer’s films this is probably looking hottest. The Wolverine trailer is looking a little disappointing, so it’s between this and Terminator: Salvation for me.


