Author: Dan

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Food

Potatoes are awesome

So awesome in fact that you should vote for my aunt to win Project Food Blog for her food blog – hers is a proper blog she actually writes too (not just links to superheros and computer games) – you can check her out at The Daily Spud.

Also don’t be put off by the Join/Sign In dialog that pops up when you try to vote, enter a username and a valid email and that’s it – no lengthy registration or email validation, it’s literally a couple of clicks – but you do need to vote by this Thursday.

For anyone looking for further reading you can find out more about Project Food Blog or check out some recipes (potato-related or otherwise).

Categories
Art

Marvel Cats

Super Punch has a round up of the best, my favourite has to be Katie Cook‘s Spider-Cat:

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Closely followed by Lar Desouza‘s Hulk, Skottie Young‘s Venom and Mike Maihack‘s Ghost Rider:

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In related news I’ve ordered Marvel Zombies 1 (as well as the first volume of The Walking Dead) and am about to settle down to a spot of Gotham by Gaslight (Batman vs Jack the Ripper co-written by Mike Mignola).

Categories
Photography

The destroyer of worlds

NY Times has a gallery dedicated to The Bomb:

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The faint crescent below the fireball is the shockwave bouncing off the desert.

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It turns out nukes are effective against airships from at least five miles (the shockwave collapsed the blimp)

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If it wasn’t for the shockwave this could be a photo of a hazy sunset.

The collection also contains an atomic cannon, the famous shot from Bikini atoll and a series of a school bus getting pretty seriously burnt, then blown out, then burnt again (no test shots of fridges though).

There are also some cool/weird shots of the early stages of the expanding fireball:

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This image isn’t in the gallery but is of the first nuclear detonation (Trinity):

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The (very small) black dots in the foreground are trees, the big blob is a fireball 200m wide.

(via Kottke)

Categories
Music

Ten Million Slaves

Categories
Books

Wolfman

From the Wikipedia article on the Comics Code Authority:

At the 1974 New York Comic Art Convention panel “Marvel Comics: The Method and the Madness”, Marv Wolfman told the audience that when he began writing for DC, he was forbidden to use the name “Wolfman” in print due to the Comics Code Authority’s ban on werewolves.

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Business

How much you should be paid

The BBC commissioned research from ComRes about what the public believes 15 different professions should pay.

Those people surveyed were not told what the real pay levels were in those professions.

Note, it’s what these professions *should* pay not what people think they do pay.

According to the survey the public think that Premiership Footballers should be the highest earners in the country (though they should only earn about £1000 a day rather than the four and half they currently earn on average).

Depressing much?

(BBC News)