Posts Tagged ‘creepy things’

A Horror Movie Waiting To Happen

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

That’s an image from the “Blood Falls”, a five-story, blood-red waterfall that pours very slowly–the falls are frozen, and so flow slowy–out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. That multi-coloured bump in the lower left is a tent, if that helps you get an idea of scale
The falls were first observed around [...]

Posted in Science and Technology | No Comments »

Pirate Jenny

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

For vaguely Alan Moore reasons I was recently checking out some renditions of Threepenny Opera tunes, and I found this version of Pirate Jenny that out-creepies the Nina Simone and Ute Lemper versions that I was familiar with. I thought I’d share.

Posted in Music, One-and-done | No Comments »

Farther Beyond Than I Can Apparently Go

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Generally speaking I appreciate black humour. Generally speaking I get that especially dry, uniquely British style of humour. Generally speaking any book that’s described as witty, much less as “a masterpiece of wit”, is right up my alley. Generally a book that makes excellent use of metaphoric commentary to satirize and skewer political systems, the [...]

Posted in Books, Reviews | No Comments »

Sunday Night, Not Too Serious

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I’m just closing some tabs here as I’m watching the adaptation of Choke. It’s actually a pretty good adaptation. Or maybe it’s just Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston carrying it.
Anyway, on to the tabs–nothing too deep tonight:

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear that Sarah Palin’s daughter and her hockey player fiancee have [...]

Posted in Linkapalooza | 1 Comment »

A Few Quick Words on Soundtracks.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I require another 72 hours between now and Tuesday morning, please. Baring that, let me make a very quick post and get back to the salt mines.
On the weekend I had a chance to watch All Hat, the adaptation of Brad Smith’s “modern day Ontario western“. I generally like Smith, and I liked the book, [...]

Posted in Music | No Comments »

February 5, 2009 12:33 am

What does it say about me that when I read a piece on scientists attempting to create human/animal hybrids in order to harvest stem cells from animal eggs, that my immediate reaction is “Oh noes, they’re going to make the cat girls and some skeevy people will be way too excited about it”?

(0 Comments)

Yeah, that’s actually quite creepy

Friday, December 19th, 2008

You know, I don’t think I ever really realized just how creepy the whole button-eyes thing in Coraline is until just now.

I whipped that up with the tool at the page for the forthcoming Coraline movie. Sarah’s going to love that pic when she sees it. (I bought Coraline for myself when it came out, [...]

Posted in Books | No Comments »

December 10, 2008 11:53 pm

Did you see the page of spirit photography that Jeff Ford linked to the other day? That stuff is pretty cool, especially in the historical context. I admit, though, that it makes me want to see if I could use my meagre Photoshop skills to cook up something similar from some digital photographs.

(1 Comments)

Sunday Night Gallimaufry

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

You know the drill, this is the miscellaneous tab closing ceremony. Since I’m tired of politics today, there will be none in this list.

I have had several discussions about this recent article on a particular form of elective surgery. All that I can conclude from these discussions is that I have different aesthetic than many [...]

Posted in Linkapalooza | No Comments »

September 4, 2008 3:10 pm

I’ve been holding this link, brought to my attention by Jeff Ford, to a story on the Dancing Plague (and some other odd afflictions). I find the theorizing quite interesting, although I suspect the truth, when it is discovered, will end up being something to do with parasitism.

(0 Comments)

A Sunday Miscellany

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Well, I’ve had a very busy weekend here in Melbourne–which I may get around to writing up at some point later tonight–and now I’ve made it back to my hotel/apartment, and it seems like a good time for me to do a little bit of value-added linkblogging. So, no theme, just lots of things that [...]

Posted in Books, Linkapalooza, Science and Technology | 4 Comments »

Miscellany: Your lab fees at work.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

For a long time now I’ve been asking to be cremated and buried or scattered, rather than being embalmed and buried whole. This is primarily because I find the whole embalming thing a bit icky and unnatural, and secondarily because as an engineer I realize that the conventional burial model doesn’t scale with geometrically expanding [...]

Posted in Linkapalooza | 5 Comments »