It's interesting to me

[674462c2e6350Kolya]

As my wife correctly pointed out this doesn't bode too well for those future cats of Cassandra.

[674462c2e64a8Kolya]

Hyper-Reality


https://vimeo.com/166807261

[674462c2e67fefox]

The Diamond Age: Startup plans to replace the silicon in smartphones with artificial diamonds

Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash: ’92’s Eerie Cyber-Prophet
http://www.tor.com/2011/04/14/neal-stephensons-snow-crash-92s-eerie-cyber-prophet/

[674462c2e6967Kolya]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTRXOnbuJVM

The X-Files theme in C major (making of)

[674462c2e6af6Kolya]

Sigourney Weaver talks ALIEN 5 at Aliens 30th Anniversary Comic Con Panel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtDR9dnvws

tl;dw: There's a script she likes with Ripley not on Earth. Maybe it'll become a movie someday.

[674462c2e6c27Kolya]

Stryka is a scifi shortfilm (9 min) about an alien woman who is caught up between two partners in crime

[674462c2e7065icemann]

Alien 5, or the requel movie (requel - movie which completely skips the bad movies in a series, so in this case movies 3 & 4). This movie must be made.

Alien 3 was good, I'll give it that. But after the ultimate experience that was Aliens, it was just such a massive let down.

The Terminator franchise could use a similar treatment, rather than a movie which eliminated all the good movies in the franchise.

[674462c2e7247Aurora]

What was good about Alien 3?

[674462c2e7696Marvin]

What was good about Alien 3?

Not being as brilliant as one of the best movies of all times does not make a film bad, just less good. Alien³ was well-acted, very well-filmed and brought back a lot of the suspense from the first movie that the second one was lacking thanks to having one single alien again. The troubled production and the always unfinished script together with the less polished VFX work certainly hurt the film, but it's still a well above average movie. The biggest difficulty to overcome was the fact that there wasn't really a need for another Alien movie as Alien and Aliens covered everything except maybe for the origin of the aliens which should have been left a mystery.

[674462c2e7817icemann]

I remember the main things that REALLY pissed me off the first time I watched Alien 3 was that they killed Hick's and Newt off in the first 10 minutes. Bishop about 30 mins later. Beyond that I enjoyed it for what it was.

That said the video games for Alien 3 were better than the movie.

Alien Resurrection on the other hand is a steaming pile of shit that never should have been made. How did the marines go from being kickass (Aliens) to horrible (Resurrection). And all that awesome human tech from Aliens just vanished and never popped up in a Aliens flick again.

[674462c2e792eKolya]

Human by João Bosco

[674462c2e80afKolya]

Syd Mead - A Portfolio of Probabilities

These are Syd's visions of "Man and His Mobility 1990". Published by United States Steel Corporation, Automotive Industry, Marketing, Southfield, Michigan and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. No date is given, circa 1967-1969. It was not sold but a promotional item given out to the art industry at the time.

[674462c2e82c0Kolya]

I guess most people here know that the doorcode 451, which LGS used in their Boston office and in their games (and which was later referenced in many other games), refers to Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit: 451" and describes the temperature at which books would start to burn.

To find out, Ray Bradbury didn't burn a book with a thermometer inside. He instead called his local fire department as he explains in this interview.
The 451° value he was given was rather low and peculiarly specific though. The auto-ignition temperature of paper (ie when heated but not exposed to flames) by recent experiments lies around 480 Fahrenheit. It varies a lot due to type of paper (un/coated), thickness, composition, density, shape (open vs closed book).  (source)

 

[674462c2e83d5Kolya]

I fixed youtube embedding. It should work without Flash now and fullscreen also works again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXmM

[674462c2e84d3Kolya]

Save 404 Lemmings on webdeveloper Romain Brasier's 404 page by hovering over them: http://www.romainbrasier.fr/404

[674462c2e85c7Kolya]

Fixed the ambient page.

[674462c2e88b7unn_atropos]

The earth is shaking! Grab this dance pole, Kate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC7PEQnjKl4

1.762.326 (maybe 2 from me today) views and nobody did mind?

Well, then let's get in 100%!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-YIntV7-s0

[674462c2e89f4Kolya]

Haha, Kate has always had great taste in music.

Those swinging skyscrapers look surreal. Although I did see similar on a smaller scale. On 13. April 1992 I was still sitting at my computer at 3:20 in the morning when I heard some kind of rumbling. First I thought the cat had opened the door until I noticed the ground vibrating. I ran to the window and saw the row of houses on the opposite side of the street swinging back and forth about 2-3 meters. The earthquake lasted quite long (15sec) but not long enough for me to flee to the street or do anything except watch in amazement.

[674462c2e8af6Kolya]

I replaced the mobile post icon today with a vector from the font we already use. One less query! \o/
And I installed a mod that strikes through banned members' names, to make banning transparent to other users. Currently no user is banned.

[674462c2e8be5Kolya]

Linux turns 25 today. 

[674462c2e8fbfJML]

The earth is shaking! Grab this dance pole, Kate!
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I watched both videos at that time and was quite impressed by the earthquake video... Pretty sick when I read in the Newspaper next morning about a huge natural disaster that happened in Italy and will cause about 300 deaths. *shudder*
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37198040

[674462c2e90f5fox]

Huge part of the recurring earthquake problem in Italy is that many of their buildings were and presumably are not constructed with proper saftey regulations in mind. The same earthquake (it only had a strenght of 6) wouldn't have done much damage in a country with stricter regulations (if they were enforced anyway).

[674462c2e9274JML]

While I agree that the building mafia is a serious problem, not only in Italy, a scale of 6 is not that small. Attaching the Richter magnitude scale and the energy release equivalents. (I'm also quite impressed that you only need 30g of TNT to have the same seismic yield than a large hand grenade!)
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[674462c2e935dfox]

At the very least, well constructed buildings wouldn't have collapsed and people wouldn't have died as a result.