Band OK Go wins the Internet. (via Topless Robot) Edit: Wired has an article on the making of this video, with videos of its own. It really was done in a single shot!
Posts under ‘politics’
A miscellany buried in snow
Just a quickie, as I have to go shovel snow. Again. Here’s one way to depict my day at work: a mousepath. Today was for numbercrunching. You can get the mousepath software yourself (Mac/Linux, Windows – by Anatoliy Zenkov and picked up by me here). Hey, guess what? Having a blizzard does not invalidate global [...]
The fictional year in review
In early October I started a Goodreads account. I’d had good intentions of keeping a list of things I’d read, but had not been particularly successful at doing it. I’m notoriously bad at remembering authors and titles, and I wanted something to help me keep track. Most of my fiction comes from the public library, [...]
Good old USA
This sucks. Canadian science fiction author Peter Watts was stopped by US Border Patrol agents on his way out of the US, beaten up, detained, all his things confiscated, then kicked out. In shirtsleeves. In December. In Ontario. And he’s been charged with assault too. Many people have discussion and commentary, including Peter himself. People [...]
Pride
Last month a new group, The Outer Alliance, formed to support gender diversity in science fiction and fantasy. The final straw was some idiotic and blatantly prejudiced writing, but there is a lot of more subtle prejudice out there too. For decades, SF particularly has been the province of straight white men, and not necessarily [...]
A contradictory nation
Science, politics… all the fun all at once. Among the 30 OEDC countries, the United States is number one in health expenditures, but 28 in infant mortality, and 24 in overall life expectancies. We also work the most hours per week, and are the third richest country. But then, we are obese, and don’t get [...]
