Written by Dr P Fenderson on February 16th, 2009
Animator Tyson Ibele created this magnificent and haunting CGI animation for a recent CGSociety animation challenge. The animation, titled “Hemlock”, was created for the “Steampunk – Myths and Legends” challenge.
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Written by Dr P Fenderson on January 10th, 2009
Crafty blogger Captain Mouse created this stunning fractal bear as a gift for her brother. She does not have any for purchase right now, but you might be able to get some in the near future.
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Written by Dr P Fenderson on January 7th, 2009
On Janurary 1, 2009, 27 year-old BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant as he was being detained. According to the official reports, Oscar was detained as part of 2 groups of young men who were possibly involved in an altercation with each other. Police officers at some point pushed Oscar [...]
Written by Dr P Fenderson on January 6th, 2009
Artist Michael Fleming of tweedlebop illustrated a super-cute Star Wars alphabet set. Greatest part about it is that it uses the Aurebesh language rather than English to teach kids how to spell “Bantha” or “IG-88“.
Original on tweedlebop | Photoset on flickr | via BoingBoing
Written by Dr P Fenderson on February 8th, 2008
So on the voter defraud front – it’s only the primaries and we’ve already had recounts, Diebold (I mean, Premier Election Solutions) vote flipping uncovered publicly, Diebold using the same already-hacked keys in their current machines, and voting machines from Sequoia not counting votes…it’s time for another episode of Election Officials are F*cking Crazy!
From Chicago, [...]