Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Snookimania!
I'd always just assumed that Snooki is simply famous for being famous. Or notorious for being notorious, take your pick. Either way, I'd assumed she had zero skills to warrant such fame/notoriety, outside of whining and getting punched.
But soft! What light on yonder window breaks?
Wowsers. Turns out she's a DAMN FINE BACKFLIPPING WRESTLER, and I truly wish her the best of luck in her new calling. Hats off, Snooki, you officially rock.
But soft! What light on yonder window breaks?
Wowsers. Turns out she's a DAMN FINE BACKFLIPPING WRESTLER, and I truly wish her the best of luck in her new calling. Hats off, Snooki, you officially rock.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
I want to be Grace Jones and Tank Girl when I grow up
I find it interesting that they're both very feminine and very masculine, and they somehow manage to blend all that with a great sense of humor. I also love their whole desert-primal-meets-sci-fi thing, even though I personally favor a Cyndi-Lauper-meets-Kate-Spade thing, and I'd like to think that lurking not so deeply within me is an element of Jones's and Tank Girl's fearless, punk-rock power.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Human circuitry?
IBM Scientists Build Computer Chips From DNA
This technology might still be in its infancy, but it's already suggesting to me the Maas-Neotek biosoft which William Gibson mentions in his novels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Once computing materials are made of human tissue, what's to stop us from directly attaching DNA-based hardware (er, fleshware?) to ourselves, saving our memories to it and using it to augment our own strengths?
[William Gibson, 2008; groovy person, not actual inventor of DNA chips]
Which further reminds me: Gibson mentions saving our personalities (or 'constructs') to hardware so that we can continue 'living' -- or, at the very least, interacting with anyone who activates our constructs. Which makes me all sorts of nostalgic for Max Headroom:
According to the ever-infallible Wikipedia, Gibson wrote an episode of the TV series "Max Headroom", but the show was canceled before his contribution ever aired. Sigh. To see the pilot episode, check out the Google video. It has mediocre sound, but is still well worth viewing.
This technology might still be in its infancy, but it's already suggesting to me the Maas-Neotek biosoft which William Gibson mentions in his novels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Once computing materials are made of human tissue, what's to stop us from directly attaching DNA-based hardware (er, fleshware?) to ourselves, saving our memories to it and using it to augment our own strengths?
[William Gibson, 2008; groovy person, not actual inventor of DNA chips]
Which further reminds me: Gibson mentions saving our personalities (or 'constructs') to hardware so that we can continue 'living' -- or, at the very least, interacting with anyone who activates our constructs. Which makes me all sorts of nostalgic for Max Headroom:
According to the ever-infallible Wikipedia, Gibson wrote an episode of the TV series "Max Headroom", but the show was canceled before his contribution ever aired. Sigh. To see the pilot episode, check out the Google video. It has mediocre sound, but is still well worth viewing.
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