SnarkyBytes

Master modeler Phil Warren has been building match stick ships for 62 years.

Every one is made from just wooden match sticks and the wooden boxes they come in.

Amazing.

Monstrous Wildlife from Frank Robnik on Vimeo.

I am WAY too uncoordinated to play regular Rock Band, there’s no way I could do this…

But I like it.

Augmented reality is going to change the world in ways we can’t even begin to imagine.

120 years ago, in 1888, the new Edison Phonograph was used to record over 3000 voices singing in the Crystal Palace. They are the oldest audio recordings still in existence from Great Britain.

The original wax cylinders have been converted to MP3.

The recordings are noisy and faint but you can clearly hear the music.

In the year 2130 will they be able to play a MP3? How about a DVD or a CD?

In my lifetime, I’ve seen recording formats come and go. The 45, the LP, Reel to Reel, 8 track, Cassette Tape, CD, Betamax, VHS tape and DVD…

All those recordings, much of it completely unplayable now because no one makes the equipment to play them on any more. Got home movies on VHS? How about Super 8?

I think it will be easier from now on to preserve digital recordings. Bits are bits and if the file exists some geek will be able to figure out how to play it back.

But all that physical media? Its days are numbered.

Now you can have the REAL Campbell’s soup. Bruce Campbell’s that is:

SciFi Wire has created new soup labels in honor of Bruce Campbell’s birthday.

Can’t happen soon enough.

Blackfork has his photos for the TSRA 2010 calendar up.

Also, a couple of gorgeous LeMat revolvers.

Drool….

Oh hell yes.

Here’s a screen grab:

I am horrible at drawing, even my stick figures suck but Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is not about the quality of the art but that it is done in the first place. Here’s mine:

(Truly horrible, but you can plainly see that it is a drawing of Mohammed)

Christina’s version made me snort Diet Coke into my nose from laughing.

Calvin’s mom gives an award.

And Lissa brings some research.

Gudis has the Mohammed police sketch.

BlueSun offers a dancing and martini drinking Mohammed.

Breda brings the bacon.

JRebel’s Mohamed is da bomb!

DirtCrashr offers up a motorhead Mohammed.

Yuri with another Mohamed Bomb. That seems to be a popular theme!

FINALLY, we get an anime version from Silver.

Tomorrow, May 20th is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Our Draw Mohammed contest is not a frivolous exercise of hip, ironic, hoolarious sacrilege toward a minority religion in the United States (though even that deserves all the protection that the most serioso political commentary commands). It’s a defense of what is at the core of a society that is painfully incompetent at delivering on its promise of freedom, tolerance, and equal rights. It’s a rebuttal to the notion that we should go limp in the clinches precisely because bullies and bastards can punch or blow us up.

So, everyone draw Mohammed tomorrow and put it on the Internet!