Gerald Brandt

Another slow week for links.  Either the world is getting more boring, or I’m getting less interested!

Misc

- the 10 coolest ‘multi functional furniture‘ designs.

Science

- Usually, we think of spacetime as being four-dimensional, with three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. However, this Euclidean perspective is just one of many possible multi-dimensional varieties of spacetime. For instance, string theory predicts the existence of extra dimensions – six, seven, even 20 or more. As physicists often explain, it’s impossible to visualize these extra dimensions; they exist primarily to satisfy mathematical equations.

The Prisoner

- Nestled away on the coastline of Wales is Portmeirion, the town where they shot The Prisoner in the 1960s. It looks much the same as it did back then with its quaint architecture and beautiful scenery. And for the umpteenth time, Portmeirion plays host to PortmeiriCon this weekend — a convention devoted to the classic series. Hosted by The Prisoner Appreciation Society, also known as the website Six of One, the event offers both indoor and outdoor activities

I’ve a whole grab-bag if stuff for you today.  Enjoy.

Misc

- Kurt Vonnegut Motivational Posters

Science

- Fermilab has made some amazing discoveries lately.  This is just one of them.

Humour

- The Onion just seems to be getting better and better.  This one is great.

Writing

- Guy Gavriel Kay talks about the exposure writers get when they Blog, and the effect it can have.

Programming

- This ones old, 2001 I think.  It’s a rebuttal against the ‘Learn xxx in 21 days’ books.

I missed my weekly links last week, I only had 2 links to share.  Pretty sad.  This week is no better really, but here ya go anyway.

Writing

- You can see a video interview of Joe Abercrombie talking about his new novel Best Served Cold on YouTube right now:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

- Joe Blow Neopro.  A series of articles Tobias S. Buckell wrote for Speculations, just after breaking into writing short stories, selling his first novel, and finding a small measure of attention via his blog:

Misc

- The New York Times has an article this week on ‘Why Her Paycheck is Smaller‘.

- Sydneysider Matthew Sheil has built what could easily be one of the most elaborate big boy’s toys in the world, and his efforts have earned him a Guinness world record.

I’ve been waiting for this movie for a while.  Here is the release trailer they’re showing in theaters.

Misc

- I saw this picture and just bust a gut laughing.  Maybe I was in a weird mood.

- There was a huge racket this week about people finding the Lost City of Atlantis using Google Earth.  Google denied the fact, and even came up with an alternate explanantion.

- And the United States people wonder why they are in financial trouble.

- And now for a YouTube video link.  This is a parody on ‘No matter how much things change, they always stay the same.’

- I sent this link on a business card to a Designer friend of mine, Robert L. Peters from Circle [edit: at the time of this post, both sites seem to be down for some reason].  I thought this was a cool idea, and Rob pointed out that the environmental impact of the business card was quite high.  What do you think?

-  I found this video of a pretty cool climb, but I had some issues with it.  First is the camera motion.  Sure, technically I’d say they did pretty well: smooth motion, clean arc.  But it didn’t take me long to get nauseous.  The next thing I had a problem was the climber went off route on a red point.  She went so off route on the second clip in the video that she had to clip below her feet.  I’d really like to know what the person who set the bolts thought the route should have been.

Natalija Gros from Jure Breceljnik on Vimeo.

Writing

- I wasn’t quite sure where to put this, but since I didn’t have any links for writing this week, I figured this was a good spot as any for the Grammer Nazis.