Technology, Books and Other Neat StuffTechnology, Books and Other Neat Stuff - LiveJournal.comMondo Bongo as Cyberpunk Anthem- June 30, 2008 In the (rather fun) film Mr and Mrs Smith, government assassins Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt meet in a Latin American town after one (or both) of them has killed a local warlord. As Joe Strummer and The Mescalero's world music influenced Mondo Bongo plays in the background the two agents turn a spur of the moment cover into something approximating the real.It's a very William Gibson moment, straight out the Sprawl stories, and made even more effective by the choice of music. Dig down into the...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/861915.html Lorca's Dove- June 30, 2008 Statue of Garca Lorca in Madrid's Plaza de Santa Ana.Madrid, SpainJune 2008http://sbisson.livejournal.com/861689.html You have to a like a city that has one of these...- June 30, 2008 Madrid has its very own Museum of Ham.I knew the Spanish liked their ham, but the Museo del Jamon approaches the Japan's noodly goodness that is the Ramen Museum for sheer foodie obsessiveness. Of course I was left with only one thought: "I wonder if there's a Museum of Bacon somewhere..."(Spotted from a coach, hence the glare.)http://sbisson.livejournal.com/861296.html Daily Twitterings- June 26, 2008 23:27 Street matadors using flags as capes on passing cars. That's Madrid post match...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/861035.html Daily Twitterings- June 25, 2008 17:00 unexpectedly off to Madrid tomorrow 19:35 The BBC currently seems to think that New Zealand beat New Zealand at the Oval today... is.gdFNY 21:53 Hearing good buzz about The Mirrored Heavens. Will have to pick a copy next time in the US. 22:18 You can sing pretty much anything to the tune of "Every sperm is sacred".http://sbisson.livejournal.com/860765.html Story Noodling- June 25, 2008 I noodled a flash snippet of sampans poling around starships at anchor in San Diego harbour a few weeks ago, and the sharp shard of story is tarting to nag at me rather angrily.There's something trying to come together, something that involves "the rapture of the rich", a deserted (in more ways than one) and abandoned USA, the nomads of the wastelands, sunken nuclear aircraft carriers in Long Beach, a quest for the Kouros at the Getty Villa (the famous possible fake), and a young woman...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/860464.html Something of a one-sided match- June 25, 2008 Methinks there was a typo at the BBC...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/860304.html Stupid, stupid mouse creatures- June 25, 2008 The rat creatures in Jeff Smith's wonderful graphic novel Bone were stupid. As much as they liked quiche (and anything else they could eat), they were quickly outwitted by Phone Bone and his compatriots.The Mouse's creatures, well, they seem to have completely lost it. Disney has been strongly pushing an act that's intended to help promote travel to the US. That seems to be a good thing, as the current US-VISIT border controls have made the US a much less friendly place for tourists (and the...http://sbisson.livejournal.com/859938.html Living in the 21st Century- June 25, 2008 I'm not the most security-minded of folk. To be honest, most of us aren't. There's something impressive (and not a little scary) about the security guru mindset which dissects everything, looking for the tiniest loophole. Oh, I use relatively strong passwords, and I look at my log files, and run all the security tools that make sense (or that I'm advised to by the security folk I know and respect). However, as most of my life is online and in email, there's one simple security measure above and.http://sbisson.livejournal.com/859881.html Daily Twitterings- June 24, 2008 21:15 An interesting day of meetings: Avanade on new IT structures, Etymotics on headphone design, and Nvidia on budget GPU supercomputing.http://sbisson.livejournal.com/859601.html |