Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Link roundup

1. "Dog in Ellen DeGeneres costume gets booted from L.A. billboard." (I miss the days of Angelyne.)

2. "How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot."

3. New army reading list.

4. A new free mission involving Harley Quinn has been added to the Arkham City Lockdown iOS game (which I've previously recommended). I'm downloading it now. Via.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Link roundup

1. Criticism of the metrics Petraeus used to decide who to promote.

2. Serious Eats says the bacon shake at Jack in the Box is terrible, but recommends this bacon shake recipe.

3. The Magicians did not get picked up by Fox.

4. Jurassic Park brochure reproduction at the BBTS.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Link roundup

1. How China bought its first aircraft carrier. (Hint, they lied about it.)

2. MIT students receive their acceptance letters in cardboard tubes and are encouraged to modify them. One student sent hers into space. (Have you noticed that all of the interesting stories about space have nothing to do with NASA?)

3. Mysterious new Google device being tested. Via.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Link roundup

1. Links to the personal websites of the Tron Uprising art team.

2. Astonishing data on the number of politicians in India also facing criminal charges.

3. "'Huffington Post' Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine
Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine"

4. Are we headed to a future where our wars will be entirely fought by robots and the only people at risk are contractors?

5. Oops:
An advertising agency for BMW has paid to name a cold weather front sweeping Europe "Cooper" in Germany, after the carmaker's Mini Cooper.

But the public-relations stunt by the agency went wrong after the freezing conditions led to dozens of deaths.
*Buy Tron Legacy posters at eBay.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

American commandos rescued hostages from Somali pirates



The White House:
In a phone call from the U.S. Capitol immediately after the State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama informs John Buchanan that his daughter Jessica was rescued by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Somalia, Jan. 24, 2012. First Lady Michelle Obama stands behind the President. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Here's the story.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Link roundup

1. Like the Prisoner, but with good intentions:
Its detractors may end up dubbing it "Dementiaville", but Switzerland is brushing aside a debate raging among geriatric-care experts with plans to build a mock-1950s village catering exclusively for elderly sufferers of Alzheimer's and other debilitating mental illnesses.
Via.

2. "What do Army junior officers actually recommend reading?: Their own top 10."

3. A hobbyist piloting a drone spotted a river of blood - - a meatpacking plant in Dallas was simply ejecting blood into the river. Via.

4. Sam Wolfe Connelly has a new shop featuring some illustrations I've featured.

5. Paul Pape's having a sale on his custom made stuck in carbonite sculptures.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Sculptures by Stephen Ives

A small selection of sculptures by Stephen Ives.












There's many more clever, provocative sculptures on display at his site. Via these sites.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

District 9 Papercraft - MNU Armored Personnel Carrier

District 9 Papercraft MNU APC

The APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) used by the private military company Multinational United (MNU) in the sci-fi film District 9 - they were responsible for relocating the aliens.

Distric 9 Papercraft - MNU APC [Download]

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011