New Graphic Design in China: 4/14/08 Fascinating layers of patterned kanji. "Shadow Play is Fun!" illustration by Qian Qian. From the New Graphic Design In China compilation. http://pingmag.jp/2008/04/14/new-graphic-design-in-china/
=W/ Mac Tonnies of 'Posthuman Blues':= http://www.nwowatcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=9546.0 Fascinating discussion with author and blogger Mac Tonnies about the future of technology and space travel, transhumanism trends, and scientific singularities.
WASHINGTON, D.C.--High-energy particles spewing out of a young star in a nearby stellar nursery are plowing through interstellar clouds and creating a giant spiral structure in space that looks like a glowing, rainbow-colored tornado, scientists said today.
The star spewing the particle jet lies 480 light-years away in a star-forming region known as Chamaeleon I.
The awesome thing about science fiction is that anything can happen — including the occasional incredibly convenient miracle. Sometimes circumstances become so desperate and dire in a science fiction tale that even the "reset button" can't fix them — and that's when the "deus ex machina" shows up. The term, meaning "God from a machine," comes from classical theater, where a wheel-and-pulley deity would literally show up to sort everything out. And in science fiction, god literally can come out of a machine. Bow your head before our taxonomy of the most unlikely miracles in scifi history.
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