Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Alan Moore Rejects “Watchman” Film
Alan Moore, the genius behind so many wonderful comics, is once again watching what should be his intellectual property taken by hollywood without his permission. And no, he’s still not happy about it, as he told the LA Times. I interviewed Mr. Moore about a year ago about his views on anarchism as well as [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Anachrotechnofetishism Opening Night Roundup
Actually, that photo isn’t from the opening night, it’s from Wednesday night, as we worked diligently to piece the show together. But after a quick scour of Flickr for “Anachrotechnofetishism” I came across a good number of photosets with pictures from the evening: Alison Velvetgarden, Suite 100, Helix 90, Adameros, Porkshanks, and of course these [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Palin’s Email Hacked
It’s all over the news, of course, but McCain’s VP candidate Sarah Palin had her yahoo mail hacked by hacktivist non-group Anonymous. They posted the contents of the account to that glorious site WikiLeaks [ article / zip files ]. Besides just being a generally awesome thing to do, this is particularly interesting because Palin [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Airships!
I secretly (openly?) started this blog because I wanted to run an airship blog. Airships and trains, that’s how to travel. So we’ll start with this bit of news: DARPA (military mad scientists) was given $2 million to investigate airship manufacturer Aeros‘ latest attempt at technological advance, what they call BAAV. From the comments over [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Like Birds Before The Storm,
so dark before the dawn. The title of this blog is inspired by a bit of poetry out of the long-extinct gothic-rock band The Thaw. Two members of The Thaw make up Ego Likeness, an excellent gothic-rock-dance band. I started this site because I lacked a free-form blog. I post about steampunk at SteamPunk Magazine [...]
