Yes, exactly!

JH pretty much summed it up here. Go read Freak Angels!

oh be still, my heart...

If this film is as good as the trailer, I'm hooked.

via Easybake Coven

The Secret World of Prikosnovénie

Once upon a time...

Prikosnovénie associative label was born in Nantes, in 1990, out of the encounter of two cinema students: Frédéric Chaplain, fond of sound, and Sabine Adélaïde, experienced photographer. The word Prikosnovénie means “light touch” in Russian and aims at promoting inventive music combined with elaborate-exquisite aesthetics. Prikosnovénie is rooted in the then flourishing alternative movement New-Wave. Prikosnovénie could define itself as half-way between the Visa label (for its independent militarism) and the 4AD English label for its enigmatic estheticism.

Be sure to sample some of the label's featured artists via their podcast player-- upper LH corner, lower lights, inhale... hold.... exhale... enjoy.

NASA - Phoenix Mars Lander Images

This view of a portion of the spacecraft deck and one of the footpads of NASA's three-legged Phoenix Mars Lander shows a solid surface at the spacecraft's landing site. As the legs touched down on the surface of Mars, they kicked up some loose material on top of the footpad, but overall, the surface is unperturbed.

Each footpad is about the size of a large dinner plate, measuring 11.5 inches from rim to rim. The base of the footpad is shaped like the bottom of a shallow bowl to provide stability.

This image was taken by the Phoenix spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager shortly after landing on Mars.

more pics at the NASA/Phoenix main page

Death by cuteness...

...and yet somehow I survived another visit to CUTE OVERLOAD

Waiting for Day 8...

God creating the universe via computer

via Godlorica

Chemical Wedding

CHEMICAL WEDDING - THE MOVIE
A film by Bruce Dickinson and Julian Doyle

Chemical Wedding is a feature film written by Iron Maiden front-man, Bruce Dickinson and long term Monty Python editor, Julian Doyle, who also directed the film. The film is a gothic sci-fi extravaganza set in Trinity College Cambridge, where a scientific experiment goes awry resulting in the resurrection of the infamous Edwardian Occultist Aleister Crowley, who was immortalised into pop culture by the likes of The Beatles, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osborne.

Starring Simon Callow who plays the reincarnated Crowley, whilst John Shrapnel plays Crowley in flashback in this gothic, sci-fi thriller.

Worldwide Premiere - London Sci-Fi Festival on May 4th
Cannes Film Festival - Saturday 17th May
Released Nationwide on May 23rd 2008

Thanks to the Good Rev. Anaglyph for the reminder about the film coming out the end of this month, wheeee!

Tard Moddels

LINK

via Snarky Malarkey

Dolphins Mesmerized By Toy

via Clifford Pickover's Reality Carnival

MizPee

MizPee is actually a service which lists closest and cleanest toilets, so you don’t have to waste painful moments looking for one yourself.

I started out thinking I had something to say about this, but when I open my mouth to speak (or fingers to type, in this case), all that comes out is a very dry, long, dehydrated sigh... (link via Popgadget)

Mural/Wall Art taken to the MAXX!!

Unbelievable stop-motion video made of public wall painting, link via Boing Boing
sent in by my friend univac (many thanks!)

I must have said 'WOW' about a thousand times while watching...

Online Dream Machine (try this at home!)

The Dream Machine Online
Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine.

discovered above URL, groovy pic of Gysin & Uncle Bill and a bunch of other neato related dream machine stuff via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing

Most amazing disk data recovery ever

It was one of the most iconic and heart-stopping movie images of 2003: the Columbia Space Shuttle ignited, burning and crashing to earth in fragments.

Now, amazingly, data from a hard drive recovered from the fragments has been used to complete a physics experiment - CXV-2 - that took place on the doomed Shuttle mission.

LINK

Exposing the latest BS...

The good folks I work for here at the NCSE have put together a marvelous resource that helps explain the "truth behind the fiction" in the newly-released movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring Ben Stein.



"... a detailed look at the Ben Stein movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. We'll show you why this movie is not a documentary at all, but anti-science propaganda aimed at creating the appearance of controversy where there is none..."