pretty fu##in cool......

According to Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline, the pioneering machine performance group has been banned from staging their provocative, brilliant, and awesome spectacles in San Francisco. What a damned shame. From SRL.org, where you can read Mark's entire statement:

Bill O'Reilly flunks middle-school math while defending Fox's sleazy hatchet job on the Netherlands

[Video Link] After Fox aired a video calling the Dutch "naive," and the country "out of control," "a cesspool of corruption and crime," "a mess," and "anarchy," a man from the Netherlands named Max Wezendonk made a video response, backing up his counterargument with facts about the Netherlands' low rates of drug use and murder compared to the USA.

bill knows his sh##

William Gibson likens the erosion of privacy to being absorbed by a 'benign Borg', and talks about how technology drives change... albeit in a random way.

In this clip, William talks about...
How social media is like Star Trek's the Borg
"It's like a benign Borg absorption. I can only imagine that social media will literally invade our dreams... we haven't been there before, but we'll like some things about it and we won't like other things about it. We didn't really decide to go this route. If technology is the change driver - and nobody's deciding what technologies are going to emerge... it's random, in the way that evolution is."

Toy-sized quadrotors flying in formation

Researchers from GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania developed software to allow toy-sized nano quadrotors to fly in tight, precise and eerie formation. Gmoke sez, "William Gibson dreams of a mass of these things comprising a flying skyscraper. I imagine them as surveillance and policing drones ready to stop the OWS action or Arab Spring before it can start

Unsolicited Proposals For New and Wonderful Beverages

 

Lunchbreath has been hard at work developing a few

'Vampire Woman,' Mexico's Maria Jose Cristerna, Gives Interview At Venezuelan Tattoo Expo

Though popular legend says that vampires must eschew direct light to survive, one 'vampire' has thrived in the spotlight recently. And really, it takes a lot to stand out at a tattoo convention where a man was suspended from hooks in his skin, but leave it up to Maria Jose Cristerna, the famous Mexican "Vampire Woman," to do just that.

Cristerna attended the Venezuelan Tattoo Expo on Jan. 28 in Caracas, Fox News reports. According to Agence France Presse, more than 200 tattoo artists from a dozen countries attended the event, but Cristerna's titanium horns, dental "fangs" and numerous facial piercings drew particular attention, even among other tattoo aficionados.

"My body transformation has been a part of taking my taste to the extreme," Cristerna told AFP. "Life is short and sometimes we waste it on many things, so I've chosen beauty. And for me it's beautiful to be this way, so that's why I do it."

Last September, Ripley's Believe It or Not! took full-body casts of Cristerna to produce wax figures of her likeness for display at museums around the world -- bringing her one step closer to immortality.

Check out the pictures below from the Venezuela Tattoo Expo and an interview The Telegraph conducted with the Mexican "Vampire Woman."

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Exclusive: Ozymandias Cover for Dreaded Watchmen Prequel

Len Wein's Ozymandias, exclusively previewed above, is just one of seven interconnected prequel miniseries arriving this summer as part of the Before Watchmen franchise.

Everything old at DC Comics is new again, again. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ canonical miniseries about superheroes and power — and their horrific abuses — is being predictably rebooted as a prequel franchise.
Just don’t call it a reboot, said Before Watchmen series editor and Wolverine and Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein, who also served as Moore and Gibbons’ original Watchmen editor in the 1980s.
“To me, a reboot is what DC is essentially doing with the New 52, which is changing costumes, origins, relationships, essentially looking at old characters through new eyes,” Wein said in an e-mail to Wired. “What we’re doing is filling in a lot of the blank spaces in a story that has already, to some degree, been told. There were still a lot of gaps in the histories of Watchmen‘s characters, and events only mentioned in passing or touched on briefly in the original story. We’re filling in those gaps in the most creative and inventive ways we can.”
Those gaps, however, will have to be filled without the help of the outspoken and influential Moore, who told Wired.com in 2010 that DC Comics offered Watchmen back to him if he “would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels.”

“I don’t believe anyone at DC has spoken to Alan at all, which seems to be the way he prefers it.”

“So I just told them that if they said that 10 years ago, when I asked them for that, then yeah it might have worked,” Moore added. “Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms. I don’t even have a copy of Watchmen in the house anymore.”
Gibbons has, however, given his stamp of approval to the sprawling project, which includes seven prequel miniseries based on Watchmen‘s violently unhinged superheroes, who alongside Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns rebooted the entire comics industry in the ’80s, and Hollywood film franchises shortly thereafter.
“To the best of my knowledge, while both Alan and Dave are aware of what we’re doing, I don’t believe anyone at DC has spoken to Alan at all, which seems to be the way he prefers it,” Wein told Wired.com. “And Dave, I believe, was invited to participate but declined.”
Declined, yes. But ultimately Gibbons respected what DC wanted to do. Although his vision of completion somewhat diverges with Wein’s assessment of Watchmen‘s narrative gaps

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[Video Link] Mike Haeg made this "Marcel Duchamp Inspired Ice Fishing Tip Up / Auto Jigger." He says, "this auto-jigger harnesses the power of the wind. A silver dinner bell rings when a fish bites. Perfect for catching panfish and Dadaists." It debuted this week at Art Shanty Projects.

let sense/net attack as long as I got pizza in a jar...

HOWTO make pizza in a jar

These twice-baked Pizzas in a Jar seem calculated to enrage TSA operatives, who will doubtless claim that pizza magically becomes a "gel" once you put it in a jar. Nevertheless, that looks like a jar of scrumptiousness, right there.

Basically, all that you will be doing is layering your pizza ingredients into the jar. Here’s the thing, though: if you want more than one layer of pizza dough, you need to bake the layer that is not on top. See how the bottom layer is dough? I learned the hard way, that it comes out slightly soggy because it is not exposed to air.
You have two choices:
1. Only top off your ingredients with the dough, that way you can bake it all at once.
2. Add some dough to the bottom layer. Bake it at 375 degrees for about 15-20 minutes, or until it is beginning to crisp and brown. Then, add your other topping layers and top off with more dough. Bake again

goverment out of control.....

Survival Research Laboratories: banned in San Francisco

Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.

According to Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline, the pioneering machine performance group has been banned from staging their provocative, brilliant, and awesome spectacles in San Francisco. What a damned shame. From SRL.org, where you can read Mark's entire statement:

SRL was recently banned from performing in San Francisco by the SF fire dept. In December 2011, Somarts, a local gallery venue,/arts support organization in the city asked SRL to participate in I am Crime, a show of artists who had been arrested for activities related to their work. The SRL participation was to have included an installation of one machine, the Spine Robot in the gallery and a one day street closure of Brannan Street between 8th and 9th for a short outdoor SRL event at the closing of the installation. The city of SF approved the street closure, but the SFFD, citing an SRL show from 1989 (video evidence above), Illusions of Shameless Abundance stated that SRL would no longer be allowed to perform in San Francisco. This resulted in the outdoor show being called off by Somarts...