Google implemented some nice features this month for those of us who run websites to help get a better handle on who and how many people are following along with our sites. In early February, in greatly expanded the ability to track external links to a web site you control. It is possible in Google…
February, 2007
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Barry McWilliams has posted a short, but helpful guide to effective storytelling for beginners, with links to other articles about the art of storytelling.
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Paper Robots 1999 — where else are you going to find a paper Optimus Prime that actually transforms into a truck. ‘Nuff said.
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InPhase has apparently finally shipped its long-promised holographic storage technology. InPhase’s holographic drives can store 300gb on a single DVD-sized disc. Of course that disc will cost you $180 just for the media (300gb worth of DVD+-R runs less than about $25 these days). Unfortunately, this is likely to remain a niche product for the…
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IBM has an interesting report (PDF) claiming that by 2010 the amount of data in the world may double every 11 hours. How is that possible? The thing is that every so often some new processor or hard drive is released and some idiot like John Dvorak comes along and says, “no one will ever…
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I finally got around to watching the Howard Philip Lovecraft Society’s filmed version of Call of Cthulhu and I was blown away — I immediately watched it again just for good measure. On its website for the film, the HPLHS says, Using the “Mythoscope” process — a mix of modern and vintage techniques, the HPLHS…
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By now the scandal surrounding the late English pianist Joyce Hatto is all over the net, but the fascinating thing to me is not the role that technology played in exposing the Hatto hoax but rather the obscurantist fetish of so many music critics. Hatto died in June 2006, and had been heralded by many…
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Omni-Monster is an excellent blog devoted to kaiju-related collectibles. There dozens of pictures of awesome-looking kaiju vinyl action figures, like this Mechagodzilla toy,
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After seeing a positive review in Boing! Boing!, I picked up a copy of Fantagraphics’ Beasts!. The book features illustrations of creatures that were once thought to be real but are now almost universally believed to have never existed, such as Minotaurs. The artwork is just plain awesome. What I didn’t realize was that there…