The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ...but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H.P. Lovecraft
Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Soluble Recombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells -- Lazaris et al. 295 (5554): 472 -- Science

DARPA = Spidergoats.

Sorry I’m late to the apocalypse, folks.

“In particular she has been looking at the 2007 film Beowulf starring Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie and Port Talbot-born Sir Anthony Hopkins. And she has also traveled to Indiana University’s Library in the USA to study the 1970s DC Comics series Beowulf the Dragon Slayer.”
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WalesOnline - News - Wales News - Welsh academic researches Beowulf’s impact in the modern world

  1. Dr Catherine Clarke has willingly read DC’s Beowulf comic. Counting me and Dr. K, that makes three of us.
  2. No word on whether she watched Christopher Lambert fight the Predator…er, Grendel.
  3. Indiana University has DC’s Beowulf in their stacks.
BBC NEWS | UK | Afghanistan death soldier named

When I read “Death Soldier” I was expecting something more 2000AD flavoured.

THE RAPE TUNNEL By Sheila Zareno

Some days, I feel like a sane, rational guys who’s got it all together.

Darwin’s Robots | h+ Magazine

Hopefully, we skip the Screamers and go right to the Fifth type.

I’m putting this up because if you told me while I was reading the Hephaestus Plague, that somebody would make a movie out of it, I wouldn’t have believed you. And since it was made in 1975, someone missed the opportunity.

“I liked the part with Batman, but only because the Cowboy showed up and was like ‘Don’t eat that Kit-Kat bar, it’s made of college!”
— Twitter / Chris Sims: “I liked the part with Bat …

M83 - We Own the Sky (via mothlightcreative)

If I was going to kill Zeus the Sky-Father, I probably would lay off the E and dance-fighting.

(It doesn’t make Persephone any less hot, though.)

The Truth About James Cameron -- Vulture

Humanity, you have until opening day of Battle Angel Alita.

Because if this man finishes the movie, I don’t think the rest of you can top it.

“Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”
— Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future? | Disinformation
Ever Dream This Man?

Hey, I’m working this side of the street.

“Yes, omnisexual… he has enjoys having sex with non-human species as well.”
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The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky

I think Captain Kirk would like to have words with you. Also, your English teacher.

“As in: “eventually, one man might be able to declare war on the world and win.”
— Global Guerrillas: SOME THOUGHTS ON EXTREMISTAN

chaos reigns (via retrotechniker)

My fever must have gone down, this seems legit.

Police: 21-year-old man kills self in Ind. theater -- chicagotribune.com

Now it’s nineteen, isn’t it?

(Seriously, bragging about 18?)