Dolly at The Farm 8/1/2010

This is several 10 sec. videos I put together with Rush as a soundtrack (Caravan).

Here's some more art by my favorite comic book artist. Bernie Wrightson.

Z is for Zombie

via Fantasy Ink by tom on 11/1/10

No one draws a zombie like Bernie Wrightson. To celebrate Halloween, here's a selection of drawings of the walking dead by the master:



Cover for Buyer's Guide to Comic Fandom #47, November 1973.



Illustration from 1974 calendar.



Illustration from Monsters: Color the Creature, 1974.



Illustration from Monsters: Color the Creature, 1974.



Inside front cover for Creepy magazine, 1976.



Cover for Apparitions Portfolio, 1978.

This Is the Most Delicious Eye Candy I've Seen All Week Video from Gizmodo

via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on 11/6/10

This movie has no dialog, no plot, and absolutely no point except to leave you in complete awe. It achieves that objective, and then some more. All this eye candy is irresistible. Don't believe me? Here is some proof: More »

Happy Festival of Lights

via Flickr Blog by Kay Kremerskothen on 11/5/10

It’s Diwali! Share the happiness and spread the light!

The World In Words

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Psychohistory (Isaac Asimov) & Prescience (Frank Herbert)

I liked this version of Frank Herbert's Dune books even better than the original. When is book 4coming to SyFy?

Does anyone see how much Dune has in common with The Foundation books by Isaac Asimov.

Like psychohistory vs. prescience?

Surely I'm not the only one...

Hatfield's End - Stonehenge 4

I really like this band. Never heard of them before now though.

HATFIELD’S END

November 2000 saw the launch of `Stonehenge 4 - Echoes of ancient Mysteries’ of Hatfield’s End. Stonehenge 4 of Hatfield’s was presented as `An English production’, composed and executed by a group called Hatfield’s End. It is possible they consist of two people; the inlay only shows two pairs of eyes. The recording location is The Hannover House, South England. Does this mean something to you? The label on the disc makes me think of Pink Floyd of Syd Barett. In short - Mysteries…!

The mysterious act is successful. For twenty weeks the album reaches the Top 100, the highest place being 33. The mystery remains, no-one guesses the identity. On the internet crazy rumours circulate - Syd Barett, the psychotic creator of Pink Floyd, may be part of the group!

October 2005 - the new album of Hatfield’s End “Revealing the Myth - Stonehenge 5” is launched. Exactly 5 years after Stonehenge 4. The description of the music is still the same as for the previous album, i.e. in a truly sublime quality of sound (we may safely speak of an audiofile miracle) a musical world is presented which seemed lost forever. However, the album differs from its predecessor through more use of accoustical instruments, which causes the end result of its sound to be even `warmer’.
And…is the mystery still a mystery??
No, the composer of Hatfield’s End - Stonehenge 4, Revealing the Myth - Stonehenge 5’ is the 55-year old musicist Paul Hattink, an inhabitant of Breda, the Netherlands. For many years in his Furrier Studios Paul has laboured on the compositions which are so characteristic for his two albums. Paul has a long musical career, with local bands like Splash Down and Aubergine as well as the soundmix show of Hennie Huisman with “Na, Na, Na” of The Shoes. He also performs as a classical pianist entertainer and plays at parties with his trio The Paul Hattink Band. There are also several radio commercials. He is very knowledgeable as far as high-end stereo apparatus is concerned, and imports and is sales representative of the brands Accuphase (in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) and Cabasse (the Netherlands). He has published articles in a journal named Audio-Opinie under a pseudonym (“Jean Hauteparleur”).

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Some pictures of summer 2010 Rush - Time Machine tour - Neil Peart

Windows Live Ad Remover for Chrome

Windows Live Ad Remover for Greasemonkey.

This works great. I never want to loose this link so I'm posting it here.

Remove the ad banner from your Hotmail inbox

by Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Jul 31st 2010 at 11:00AM

As the new Hotmail continues to roll out -- it's now in use by more than 100 million people and headed to all remaining users soon! -- I don't doubt that many of you who hated the old version might want give Hotmail a second look. With loads of new features, improved performance, and no more text promotions in your message footers, Hotmail is now a strong alternative to GMail -- even for seasoned geeks like you and me!

One thing you might not like is the big vertical billboard on the right-hand side of your inbox. Fortunately, just like GMail's block of text ads, it's easy to hide. All you need is the Windows Live Ad Remover Userscript. Yes, Hotmail guys, I really DO have a very clean inbox!

Chrome users can simply click the install button at the top of the page. Firefox users will need to install the Greasemonkey add-on first and Safari users need Greasekit. Opera users who aren't sure how to install Userscripts can check this post for help.

Internet Explorer users can try either Trixie or IE7Pro, though I didn't have any luck with this particular script in either one.

 

Art by Black Onyx on my Skydrive

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