Every building with a solar, wind or geothermal element of energy production is another step away from Big Power and towards Decentralised Energy. Greenpeace like this idea and have released a report on how and why it should be achieved.
via Worldchanging
Technorati tag: Decentralised Energy
AbstinenceOnly.com, a celebration of non-penetration.
WARNING: This site contains descriptions of graphic sexual abstinence and offers abstinence-only education based on the strictest most literal interpretations of the Bible. This material is not suitable for the young or easily offended.
From the same people- Freewayblogger
Technorati tag: Abstinence, Sex, Politics
Webcomicsnation, where I’m having Deputised Experts hosted, takes payments for subscriptions using PayPal. However, PayPal has become all coy and doesn’t want to handle accounts for anything containing adult material. So there will also be AdultWebcomics, which will use a different billing solution. It won’t be the Google wallet, because that doesn’t exist yet, but other adult industry types are looking forward to its arrival.
Wired briefly investigates the growing market for short video distributed over the internet. I want to teach myself video editing and create a few shorts for this, and I’ve already stated that Spinneyworld media will be hosted off site.
Time to check out Ourmedia et al.
Technorati tag: Video
A site dedicated to reference photos for spaceship modellers.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Spaceship
The International List of Scale Model related webistes, a great way to waste a Sunday afternoon.
Technorati tag: Scale Models
Originally posted on Spinneyworld.
The trailer for V for Vendetta has been released. If you’ve got the Quicktime 7 preview then you can download it in glorious 1080 HD (providing you can wait for the 136MB file). Lesser versions for more mundane computers also exist.
Originally posted on Spinneyworld.
I went to alexandra park first, because that’s where the signs said it started, then wandered around for a while. After fuelling up on curry goat i met up with damian and headed into town, where it really started.
It’s overcast but it’s hot. I needed water after just standing and watching. God knows how dehydrated the dancers are going to be by the time they get back to the park.
More photos to follow.
Technorati tag: moblog, Nokia 3230
This is pretty much my excuse for nuking Berlin at the start of my next planned webcomic-
via Warren Ellis
Another trailer for the upcoming Serenity movie has been released.
via Screenhead
Update Both dissent.co.uk and dissent.org.uk exist. Do you think there’s a little dissent amongst the dissenters?
Technorati tag: moblog
After saying this morning that i could in to a four day week my boss bitch told me and the other temp that today was our last day. I’ve worked for some stupid people in my time, and she’s near the top of the list.
The temp’s guide to management is looking more and more appealing.
How to learn from your mistakes. For consumption when I return from work.
via Lifehacker
(Possibly misquoted a Billy Joel song, I’ll check that later as well.)
Technorati tag: University of Life, School of Hard Knocks
Only in LA.
Colette Brooks loves cars. Big cars. Cars with fins, spinners and spoilers; cars that come in nice colors: mustard, seaweed, light teal. The kind of cars that some people might adorn with faux fur and fuzzy dice. But she also loves, as she puts it, “this beautiful blue ball we’re so privileged to live on,” and her car fetish wasn’t exactly squaring with her environmental creds.
So she started buying “pimped out” cars and converting them to run on biodiesel. It’s an interesting concept, I’ll give it that. There are a couple of stretch limos soiling th eroads of Manchester at the moment. If they were fitted out to run on recycled chip fat I’d be less inclined to torch them.
via Jalopnik
Technorati tag: Biodiesel, Los Angeles
After a little work I think I’ve found a way to do art for Deputised Experts faster. My new method, whilst a little rougher, cuts the time needed to create a week’s worth of art down to six or seven hours.
Which is a day’s work.
So come on everyone, I need an excuse to devote a day a week solely to the webcomic, you know you want to subscribe. It doesn’t even need to be that many of you to get the ball rolling. I worked out that if I could work one extra hour four days a week (8.30 to 4.30 rather than 9 to 4 as at present) and take the other day off, I’d only be down two and a half hours worth of pay (this is all dependent on the goodwill of my boss, something for which there is very little evidence). That’s £16.25. A bit of mental arithmetic, not my strongest point, suggests I need about 140 monthly subscribers to get that much. It’s only a dollar a month and you get to patronise one of your favourite artists.
(By patronise I don’t mean you can send me e-mails going “Ooo’s a clever boy then. Look, he can trace. He’s so smart.”)
Support your local Spinneyhead/ webcomic artist.
Technorati tag: Webcomics, Deputised Experts
Global Frequency is the pilot episode of what was going to be a five season TV drama series, based on the comic books by Warren Ellis. Sadly, shortly after the pilot episode was filmed, there was a management change within Warner Bros and it was never broadcast. Filming for subsequent episodes was also cancelled.
However, the pilot was somehow leaked onto the internet where thousands of people around the world have since downloaded and watched it. Global Frequency is now arguably the internet’s most viewed TV episode.
If you have managed to see it, you’ll understand my use of the word “sadly” above. It isn’t very often that a TV series is created which I think I could watch, but this has all the hallmarks of being great, despite having the handicap of being written by the man behind the worst film we ever had the misfortune to waste 3 hours of an Orange Wednesday on. The internet being what it is, there is now a site starting a campaign to persuade another company to pick up filming.
I live in hope.
Three Utah students, working on a science fair project, have created an air-conditioning unit that doesn’t require Freon. The system utilises the Peltier Effect, blowing hot air over commercially available chips and producing cold air, and could not only cut down on the use of an ozone depleting chemical but also save billions of dollars in petrol use.
via Jalopnik
Technorati tag: Air conditioning, Peltier Effect