Sand Storm in Iraq: April 26, 2005

Oscar Grillo’s Grillomation Fantastically groteque illustration from another Gril…

we make money not art: The Cat Piano: “Athanasius Kircher, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar, described the cat piano in the Musurgia Universalis (1650.) In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose…

BLDGBLOG: Unrecognized for what they are: “Even better is ‘the intriguing idea’ – mentioned above – ‘that alien organisms may lurk all around us, unrecognised for what they are because they fail to respond to standard biochemical analysis’ – or they’re very bad at conversation. ‘For example, there could be microbes that use RNA instead…

Review – Day of Defeat: Source // PC /// Eurogamer: “Speaking of lovely places where shootings happen, I was in Croydon on Saturday and found myself talking to a friend from one of those paper magazine things about this here review. ‘Ah, you just need a couple of war stories for that,’ he said, truthfully.…