Yeah, this <strike>future</strike> thing freaks me out. A toy with human like skin:
This guy (warning, he's king of avant gard in some of his text) perfectly illustrates the world I've been building in my head (and sketching out in flash fiction).
Black Rock City on Mars. Elton John in the upper left hand corner.
My new favorite wallpaper via io9.
...given another thousand years or so: Ganvie, Benin.
I love anything that remotely reminds me of Venice.
via A Welsh View. H/T Neatorama.
Dug up some good information on all those dwarf planets in the Opik-Ooort Cloud.
Dwarf planets rock for three reasons:
1. Less gravity (easier to watch your wieght)
2. Less crowding (people don't like the cold)
3. Less property taxes (until we figure out how to collect them)
I want one for christmas.
Interesting development. Part of a broader trend:
A mountainside near the town was chosen as the home for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "doomsday" seed bank that will store backup copies of as many as three million different crop varieties in case of a worldwide catastrophe.
Nextnature looks at some potential geoengineering over in Holland. They're the guys behind the island building in Dubai.
BTW, Nextnature is a great blog; fair warning, today's top post is moderately NSFW (nips without the pasties, and all)
I love maps. I get the same electric feeling looking at an ancient map that I did as a kid, flipping through the Sears Catalogue (especially towards the back). Thanks to the Atlantic for this story on the Waldseemuller Map.
LoC entry.
Man, you could write a whole world, based on this thing. Love it.
Venice, which sort of grew in place:
Both enclaves that are easily defensible in a primtivized and reprimtivized world.
