December 2011
17 posts
“The universe is your prison, or is it a womb?”
– One last quote from my dad. This time about…well, everything, I guess.
“Got any surprisingly nanotechnology that’ll heal me?”
– My dad again, this time about his Lyme disease.
“I have some genetic traits I should tell you about.”
– My dad, calling to tell me about his hypothyroid condition.
Watchbashford:
James Bridle speaking about the New Aesthetic at Web Directions South.
“Waving at the machines”, a 50-minute, 120-slide vector through the idea, an idea that still seems massive and nebulous, but which it is possible to fire a laser through and illuminate some motes. I’m not sure I managed to phrase the camouflage stuff quite right, and the need for an ending always feels like a...
The Divergent Timeline of Lego: Space
ckck:
Friday Mini-Feature: Space Lego of the 80s (and late 70s).
Also known as the best Lego ever made.
Lego’s Space line was obviously, my favorite Lego line. I had sets from the 80s to nearly the 90s.
Looking back at it now, it’s initial striking how mundane and rooted in actual space exploration technology some of the sets were.Things got weirder pretty quickly, though.
The...
