By JB Sanders<\/p>\n
More links for more geeks<\/p>\n
Crocheted Reef<\/a><\/strong> Dr Who Auction**<\/a><\/strong> Drilling Causing Earthquakes?<\/a><\/strong> Walking Cactus<\/a><\/strong> Analogies Can Be Graphs<\/a><\/strong> Spacewar, 50 Years On<\/a><\/strong> In case you’re not sure what a PDP-1 is.<\/a><\/p>\n Beer Bricks<\/a><\/strong> BLDBLOG Interviews China Mi\u00e8ville<\/a><\/strong> Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:<\/p>\n “And in his 2004 novel Iron Council, Mi\u00e9ville imagines something called “slow sculpture,” a geologically sublime new artform by which huge blocks of sandstone are “carefully prepared: shafts drilled precisely, caustic agents dripped in, for a slight and so-slow dissolution of rock in exact planes, so that over years of weathering, slabs would fall in layers, coming off with the rain, and at very last disclosing their long-planned shapes. Slow-sculptors never disclosed what they had prepared, and their art revealed itself only long after their deaths.”<\/p>\n Nintendo Bets On 3D<\/a><\/strong> Scientists Discover Giant Cave System on the Moon<\/a><\/strong> You’re Playing With Them Wrong<\/a><\/strong>
\nAn entire reef made from yarn. Yes, it’s a real thing. And odd.<\/p>\n
\nBring your truckload of money, because you’ll need it.<\/p>\n
\nSo Arkansas experienced a 4.7 magnitude quake Sunday (February 27th). Arkansas. Let that sink in for a moment. Arkansas. It’s not exactly a hotbed of quake activity. The article here discusses some research that suggests that the recent spate of earthquakes in the state might be the result of over-zealous natural-gas drilling. Seriously, is anyone other than me thinking it’s a precursor plot to some kind of James Bond film?<\/p>\n
\nNot a typo, not a surrealist painting (although it might resemble that, strongly). This is a fossil found recently in China. It’s a “creature” that could be related to a worm or a lobster, with spines. Lots of spines. Be sure to check out the speculative movie for what it might have looked like.<\/p>\n
\nOr is it metaphors. Anyway, great take on the graph.<\/p>\n
\nThe venerable first video game, originally coded on a PDP-1, has been ported up to the web. It’s using the original Spacewar code, running on a PDP-1 emulator. Originally the emulator was running in Java; in the latest version it’s been ported to HTML5 tools. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
\nSo in 1963, Heinekin came out with beer in a bottle that, once emptied of beer, could be used as a brick. Yeah, how progressive is that? Plus it looks like a pretty cool glass wall.<\/p>\n
\nLove that BLDBLOG. Here he interviews the celebrated urban fantasy author China Mi\u00e8ville. Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n
\nSo this is where things are going.<\/p>\n
\nOh yeah, for real. Not the opening to some creepy science fiction movie. They posit that this would be a good place to build a moon habitat.<\/p>\n
\nBecause nothing you did as a kid was as awesome as these Star Wars Lego(tm) action shots. Seriously.<\/p>\n