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Comment on Mr. Fantastic by Gavin Craig

Gavin Craig — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000

John Byrne actually took on that question in Fantastic Four. Short answer: Galactus as we see him isn't actually how he is, it's just how our minds make sense of him. (I'd assume the Celestials are similar.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Galactuspov.PNG

Comment on Mr. Fantastic by Len

Len — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:16:38 +0000

Why are all the galactic god-like beings humanoid?

Comment on Mr. Fantastic by Gavin Craig

Gavin Craig — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:10:11 +0000

I’m the one in the back whose head is on fire. :)

The Celestials, Galactus, The Inhumans, The New Gods, man, has anyone written a book about Jack Kirby’s metaphysics? I want to buy that book RIGHT NOW.

Comment on Explosions in the sky by Andrew Innes

Andrew Innes — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:00:40 +0000

Love this post and just had to chime in with two things

1 — Check out Borges’ essay “Kafka and His Precursors” where JLB sees Kafka’s influence extending backward through time. Very cool. You can read it here: https://sites.google.com/site/jimeikner/home/borges/kafka-and-his-precursors

2 — The art of Felice Varini who creates large-scale images of simple patterns superimposed on the walls of buildings. The way the images are created allows the user to view a coherent image from only one specific vantage point. If you view from another perspective the image becomes incoherent. The effect is that the images often just float impossibly in front of you. Worth a look: http://www.varini.org/02indc/27indch04.html

Comment on The quiet stars above by Danya

Danya — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:01:53 +0000

Now I cannot get rid of the desire to see the image without the ship. Subtraction is an exacting mindgame.

Comment on The sneaky e-reader by Avi Solomon

Avi Solomon — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:01:56 +0000

Luckily the Kindle app (crossplatform!) lets me access my amazon.com content for iPhone reading on the go.

Comment on The sneaky e-reader by Ninakix

Ninakix — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:54:32 +0000

Hmm. I wonder if this says as much about the way we read in our society these days — e.g., as an incidental thing, rather than a preplanned activity. If we’re reading in the moments between things, it makes sense that these devices that we always have on our person is where we’re doing most of our reading…

Comment on The sneaky e-reader by Sharat Buddhavarapu

Sharat Buddhavarapu — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:39:18 +0000

I would be so happy if we somehow got this onto Android. I’d even love to help actualize it, although without programming skills that’d be a tad difficult.

Comment on The sneaky e-reader by Saheli

Saheli — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:35:08 +0000

I think Fish is the first story you’ve put out that I have not read; my iPod is too old.

Comment on E-ink wholesale by Peter

Peter — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:03:36 +0000

I think the standard places to look for like a box of these would be eBay and dealextreme. Those are the places that Chinese manufacturers seem to show up selling debranded technology. Except ePaper tech is still pretty tightly controlled.

The LG stuff probably isn’t even in production yet. And it’s probably not going to be cheap enough to get a whole box for a reasonable price. If you’re willing to pay a lot and still want a larger volume then alibaba might work once/if stuff goes into production?

You can get dev kits for rigid ePaper displays, but they’re not cheap. It’s not clear to me that the standard ePaper displays actually need to be rigid though; I think if you peel them off the glass they can still operate?