Or where we’re at. This photo is from the rioting in Urumqi, China; ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han chinese. Cellphones and metal sticks with pointy bits. Yup. This is the future.

Remember the Antikythera mechanism? (We blogged it a few years ago backhere.) A bizarre, thousands of years old, cog-wheel technology device that seemed to be a calendrical device. Turns out it is probably even older than originally thought. And much more funkily, check out this awesome animation of how it may have worked. (via sphenodon)

The universe provided the opportunity to see it for free on the big screen, so I did. I never saw the first one. Maybe that matters, but I doubt it. Now, the movie was insultingly beyond shit. It is indeed remarkable than anyone, even Michael Bay, can make So Much Movie, and still have it suck [...]

Last night I was on the top floor of the Majestic Centre listening to a career corporate dude talking about “mindshare”. Anyhow. Allow me to prolapse your mindshare a little with a quick linkorama. Kind of awesome and alarming that you can sponsor NZ kids in poverty - guess we made it to the 3rd [...]

Dunno how I missed this, but apparently July 23rd was Maybe Day, after Robert Anton Wilson. (At least, according to the Guardian it is.) This pleases me.