"Robert Rodriguez hunted me down like a dog."
Can you tell I’m really looking forward to Sin City?
An interview with creator of the comic, and co-director of the film, Frank Miller.
Daily archives: April 6, 2005
Planting on the ceiling
Recommended by Treehugger- Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls. The book details weight bearing requirements and the various other requirements for a thriving lawn on a roof- which will improve insulation in winter and cooling in summer as well as cutting down on the amount of run off water for drainage systems to deal with.
Technorati tag: Architecture, Grass
Long Road
Worldchanging reprints another piece from The Natural Advantage of Nations. It’s about just how much we have to do to create sustainable development in the developing world and “sustainable re-development” in the industrialised world.
Technorati tag: Sustainable Development
Nazi Gold
How long until we stop being fascinated by the Second World War? I’m still mulling over alternate history story ideas for a propeller-punk or jet-punk story. Other people keep diving in Lake Toplitz in Austria to try and find out what a bunch of Nazi would be guerillas dumped there in 1945. After some inconclusive finds and a couple of deaths, an American treasure hunter has been given permission to do a high tech trawl of the lake bottom.
In 1983 a German biologist accidentally discovered more forged British pounds, numerous Nazi-era rockets and missiles that had crashed into the lake, and a previously unknown worm.
Technorati tag: Austria, World War Two
Akira-esque
A Japanese custom parts company is selling kits to turn Honda Fusion scooters into replicas of Kaneda’s bike from Akira. I doubt you’ll look as cool as your hero when you rev up and all that comes out is a high pitched “wheeeeeeee” noise.
via 4ColourReview