#Welcome To the Future
DINOSAURS, Life On Earth, And Relativity.
This is a bit out there, but hey what the fuck can you do. I was bombing through Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s Planetary last night when there was a segment about the explosion that wiped out the dinosaurs. As I am wont to be, I got a bit curious and began wondering: just how long enough was this shit?, what were we up to?, and perhaps more vacuously: could people have come to Earth (people being a rather homosapien-heavy filtering of the notion of intelligent life, a concept perhaps even beyond our simian brains to comprehend outside of limited parameters) and I came across a pretty awesome way of looking at Dinosaurs, Us, and How Long We’ve Been Here.
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House Ain’t Voting On SOPA Until ‘Consensus’ Reached. White House Won’t Support It.
If you’re on this website, you’re clearly emotionally disturbed. Maybe. Hey don’t take offense. However, if you’re on this website you’re also probably internet savvy and you know all about the SOPA. So I won’t waste my time explaining it for the 1,000th time. However, I will tell you that the House has said they won’t vote on it until a consensus is reached.
Sweet?
Homeland Security Internet Watch List Leaks! OL Sadly Unsubversive Enough.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Internet Watch List has slithered out of their corridors and into the thick mucuous membranes of the interwebs they strive to observe.
File-sharing Religion Officially Recognized In Sweden. Wut? Rock.
Welcome to the Future, where there is a file-sharing religion officially recognized by a government. The Church of Kopimism is a religion predicated on sharin’ them torrents and the such. Outstanding.
Video: Alan Moore Talks About Universes Reproducing, And More.
Alan Moore spat some knowledge recently at last week’s Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. It’s a bit fucking insane, and definitely doesn’t seem to hinge on anything other than his fairly mind-blowing brain-piece. Worth the watch, plus he’s wearing a shirt in the Superman font that says Sperm. A man of my own heart.
Video: IBM Says Mind Reading In Five Years. God No!
IBM is predicting a nascent form of mind reading allowing you to control your techo-gadgets in five years. While they’re optimistic, any sort of mind reading of my inner monologue is indubitably an entrance into madness.
Video: Molly Crabapple’s Week In Hell
I first heard about Molly Crabapple through the website of my Lord and Demonic Inspiration, Warren Ellis. I’ve followed her a few years on Twitter, and always thought she was pretty fantastic. However, the shit she pulled off this year is nothing short of fantastic. To celebrate her 28th birthday, she locked herself in a hotel room for a week. Covered the walls in paper. And drew. And drew. It was financed by a Kickstarter project whose requested backing was crushed, and this video was produced out of it.
Pretty tremendous stuff, the sort of thing that is simultaneously inspiration and depressing. “Man, this makes me want to create!” followed by “Caff, you lazy useless sack of shit.”
Hit the jump to check it out.
Next ‘Kinect’ To Be So Accurate As To Read Lips. Thought Police Cackle.
I already thought it was creepy when it turned out that the Kinect could figure out what sort of clothing we’re wearing and report it to advertisers. The next Kinect? Motherfucker is going to be reading your lips.
Engineers Have Created LED Display You Wear Like Contact Lens. Future. Welcome.
One of the many things future soothsayer hero of mine Warren Ellis predicted in Doktor Sleepless (though perhaps other have before him, but I love the fucker) were contact lenses that augmented the fuck out of your reality. They’re coming. Humanity, prepare to be altered.
World’s First Lab-Grown Hamburger Could Be Here By Next August.
Neuromancer, Blade Runner!, hear my prayers. Soon I’ll be able to mow on some vat-grown flesh just like the good protagonists of both worlds. Oh my cyberpunk dreams!, they’re coming. Coming true.
