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"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want". I'm repeating myself. :) 56 mins ago[W]e ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? … A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
– Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak
Julian Emmanuel turns three, originally uploaded by iandexter.
Happy birthday, Wild Mutt-Echo Echo-Power Ranger! 
We love you.
– Kuya Gab, mom, and tatay
Directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, I’m Here is a “robot love story celebrating a life enriched by creativity.”
The movie is set in contemporary L.A., where life moves at a seemingly regular pace with the exception of a certain amount of robot residents who live among the population. A male robot librarian lives a solitary and methodical life — devoid of creativity, joy and passion — until he meets an adventurous and free spirited female robot.
/via Slashfilm
(It’s time for another link dump, a hodgepodge of web goodness. Enjoy!)
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There is a theory — a “unified” theory, in fact — that the universe is connected by “wave tubes”. (Imagine traveling to other galaxies through wormholes ala-Star Gate.) But I digress.
On a less grander scale, but still beautiful, here is the Milky Way, represented as a transit (tube) map.
Credit: Samuel Arbesman
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Speaking of tubes (what a segue…), ever wondered how the Internet is made? Wonder no more. Here is an Instructables how-to about making a replica of “The Internet”, as seen in the comedy hit, The IT Crowd. (Embedding is not allowed so here’s a link to the clip of that episode.)
Fun facts about the internet!
- The internet is surprisingly small!
- The internet is wireless!
- The internet is very light! (Of course the internet doesn’t weigh anything!)
- The internet lives at the top of Big Ben! (Where it gets the best reception.)
- Before being borrowed, it MUST be demagnetised! Preferably by a Grand Master of The Internet such as Stephen Hawking.
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Something totally unrelated, but very cool nevertheless: an SF story about vampires, with a twist. (Here is the link to the MP3.) I should look for more of these.
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And here’s someone who loves typography: she bakes cookies shaped as Helvetica type. Lorem ipsum dolor sit yummy!
Credit: Beverly Hsu
He was doing journalism in order to eat, which is a very good way of learning journalism. Probably the only real way, come to think of it.
– Terry Pratchett on Neil Gaiman, in Good Omens
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