Cleaning out tabs …
- Yes, because what I really want on my air travel is adverts on the overhead bins, like on a bus. At least used to be an “uncluttered, relaxed and comfortable environment.”
- Analyzing The Incredibles from a design and style perspective. “Yet as the pace quickens and the action builds, the design does too. Slick designer vehicles (think Philippe Starck on steroids) transport us to new architectural destinations: here are sites dotted by grand concrete allées, framed by volcanic window treatments and walls of perfectly gridded weaponry. Even Syndrome, the villain’s sensurround computer screen is well-designed, boasting well-kerned Bank Gothic letterforms within an icy blue-grey interface. It’s design run amok, at once exquisite and terrifying: Fritz Lang‘s Metropolis meets Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Japan.” Um … okay.
- Les provides an update on the True Bible Decoder folks who were predicting New York’s impending Bible-predicted nuking, oh, a year ago. They’re still at it, hammering out impending dates.
- A scientist whose 1955 paper questioning some aspects of the spontaneous generation of life has formally withdrawn the paper after finding creationists were citing it as proof of divine intervention in life — and after recognizing a variety of mistakes in what he wrote 52 years ago.
- Halloween has been banned in Moscow schools as a “cult of death.” Boo!
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