George Soros, who died XXX at age XXX, was a predatory and hugely successful financier and investor, who argued paradoxically for years against the same sort of free-wheeling capitalism that made him billions.
Lede from the terrible, terrible George Soros obit published accidentally by Reuters today. Come on, guys.
Lightbulb! By science-artist (the best kind of artist. Also the best kind of scientist) Jessica Lloyd-Jones. Visit her here.
This cat loves this vacuum cleaner. The best part is when its face kind of gets sucked down into the tube and it gets longer and stranger.
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Here’s a serious thing I’d like you to consider: both of these young men are holding up posters that say “There’s Two Sides.” The pink flier on the ground also says “There’s Two Sides.”
I submit to you that people who do not understand verb number agreement are not to be relied upon for ethical advice.
I would watch this movie and vote against this legislation.
So this guy mixed iron filings with Silly Putty and it turned the Silly Putty into a MAGNET-CRAZED EATING MACHINE. And I recommend watching the time-lapsed video. Honestly, I’d watch just about any time-lapse video.
Thorgerson created amazing album covers for Pink Floyd, among others. Here’s a great compilation and a clever picture in his memory (“Back Catalogue,” get it?).
Comics and SF writer Robert Morales has passed away at the age of 54. He wrote one of the best Captain America stories anybody ever came up with, called “Truth: Red, White and Black,” illustrated by the awesome, awesome Kyle Baker. Click on the picture for the Powell’s link.
Here is a very scary short film by “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and “From Hell” writer Alan Moore and photographer Mitch Jenkins. Excellent.
Seriously, how this one slipped by I’ll never know, but Tor.com, which you’d think would be fairly reliable, printed the following in a blog post on a talk Neil Gaiman gave at the Cambridge International Student Film Festival on his TV and film work, on the subject of the upcoming HBO “American Gods” series:
The first two seasons of the show will consist of the book. By then Gaiman hopes to have the American Gods sequel novel written and headed for release.
Look, I don’t exactly want to fanboy squee all over this one because I know “American Gods” gets talked up a lot, but it really is a very, very good book; well-written and perfectly plotted. Gaiman continuing the story (beyond the tie-in he wrote for Robert Silverberg’s “Legends” anthologies, which is quite good and reprinted in “Fragile Things”) is very, very good news indeed.
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