Happy 50th Birthday, Lasers

If you had to single out one cool, geeky technology as the preeminent cool, geeky technology, lasers would be a fine choice. They've enriched our gadgets, confused our cats, and, for half a century, lit up our imaginations.

VIA: -GIZMODO-

700 year old preserved brain

Evolutionary psychology tends to receive harsh criticism, and often rightly so. One of the main reasons for this is the severe lack of evidence for many of it’s proposals given that the paucity of fossilised brains fails to bolster many a case. And it isn’t even anyone’s fault. That’s just the way it goes sometimes, that the brain is a jelly-like substance that is subject to decay after death, and there’s no way we can objectively analyse or verify any differences in brains of long ago with brains of today.

Universal Gadget Wrist Charger

“The Wrist Charger, or as we like to call it, Bracer of Battery Life +2, straps comfortably to your wrist and plugs in to just about any electronic device you like. It’ll power cell phones, mp3 players, gaming systems, or any device compatible with mini USB. Now you’ll have plenty of power to get through long days traveling (or long lines at the DMV, we’ve been there, too!). When you reach your destination, simply plug your bracer in and charge its battery back up so you’re ready with plenty of entertainment for the long trip home.”

Wandering Star

Here is a song from my new band PIECE DE RESISTANCE. We had a surprise performance (our 1st show) Feb. 4th @ a venue here in Indianapolis called The Vollrath Tavern (built in like 1936, John Dillinger used to be a frequent customer). We're on the lookout for a keyboard/bass player and recently acquired a great lead guitar player to even out our sound. We're not a cover band, but we have a few covers, this one among them: WANDERING STAR by the band PORTISHEAD. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy. We're playing out around town about twice a month at the moment, trying to make our set stronger and more diverse.

Unsleepable Pillows

I recently came across this series of Forensic Pillow designs and couldn’t help thinking they are not the most relaxing things out there.

Imagine walking in on someone sleeping under this:

VIA: -SHE WALKS SOFTLY-

New Book: THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS

-Posthumous release from author, Fortean researcher, and prolific blogger Mac Tonnies-

Likewise, with any luck I'll be a weekly contributor over here for the next couple months; a new website tribute to the late Mac Tonnies who passed away Oct. '09....
macbots.wordpress.com/

Monsters and Marilyns

Monsters and Marilyns is a project by Jesse Lenz. The hair and make-up from Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn Monroe' painting is placed on politicians, dictators, public officials, as well as old horror movie monsters that are liars, murderers, and tyrants.

By doing this the statement is made that no matter how much popular culture or the mass media tries to dress up and beautify these people, they are still monsters.

-VIA: PRESURFER-

New Interview w/ Cult Favorite Horror Author David Wellington

It’s the End of the World as we Know it:
Interview with cult-favorite horror author David Wellington
-MAD 3/4/10
http://www.upsidebackwards.info

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-MAD: MR. Wellington, it’s really awesome to speak with you, thanks for taking some time with us. I just finished reading your MONSTER TRILOGY and could tell from the start that this is definitely an instant classic of the “zombie apocalypse” sub-genre of horror literature, and just an all together great series of books even if you aren’t necessarily a fan of horror! When did you first realize that you wanted to be an author, and how did the genesis of the MONSTER TRILOGY first come into fruition?

-D.W.: I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I started when I was six years old. Thirty years later, I was getting a little frustrated that I’d never been published. So I put my new book online, thinking that at least people would get a chance to read it. Enough of them did that I got a book deal out of it. I was pretty excited.

-FULL INTERVIEW CONTINUED-