Future (space)ships

These drawings are some very cool concept designs of sci-fi-y spaceships and their environments. Lovely.

Too true

This really is. And I thought I was alone.

Dr. Horrible

A creative new format that probably won’t catch on, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog made by Joss Whedon (of ‘Buffy’ fame, which I’m a huge fan of) is an enjoyable web experiment that’s worth checking out for the humor, songs, and story in a small package.

Best mating area

It’s nice to know that Madison ranks highly, as I’m available. (Note: was number one in their magazine but is last of the group online.)

Back in service

Breaking news. Well, that’s a relief (literally).

Spheres of light

These simple illuminated orbs are a fantastic outdoor decoration idea as the beautiful photos show. They seem to belong in their environment.

Paper cutouts

Wonderful paper art by Peter Callesen where the three dimensional creations spring forth from contiguous cutouts of a single piece of white paper.

Fireworks illustration

I really like the style of these illustrations by Ryan hicks using Fireworks which makes certain techniques intuitive. Found here.

Obama delegate switches to Hillary

It’s not a headline you would see, as at this stage it only goes the other way. But I wonder, is there a Hillary supporting superdelagate that once was an Obama supporter?

The worst

I’d have to agree, completely. There’s no reason to wait to judge. But there could be worse in the future, however unlikely.

Iron Man's lab

It was an enjoyable film that I’d recommend. In brief: A brilliant inventor finds his conscience, and builds an awesome suit of armor.

I came away from the movie impressed by the technology on display, particularly that of Tony Stark’s great private lab in which he works. It truly is a dream lab, and is similar to the one I plan on building on my acquisition of a suitable amount of resources.

The thing I liked most is that holographic table that Stark used for rapidly prototyping iterations of the suit design. It was portrayed as a tool of high productivity. The hologram could be interacted with in a semi-physical manner to try on parts, the system could accurately infer suit modifications that Stark desired and instantly apply the changes, undoubtedly saving an immense amount of time and effort. Being somewhat familiar with the state of holographic technology, with many groups working on real-time holographic systems, in my estimation something like this could be feasible within a decade or two. It’s both a hardware and a software problem.

There was a bunch of other tech on display but it was more towards the less realistic, at least in any near-term time frame. The suit was made in a matter of hours autonomously. I sure wish something could be made that quickly. The armor suit itself in nearly infeasible mainly do to the insatiable energy demands of such a suit, which the movie acknowledged by having Stark invent a new type of reactor capable of producing nearly limitless amounts of energy at sustained output power levels high enough to run a major city. I’d advise not waiting for this technology.