RIP Dith Pran
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born US journalist whose enslavement and escape from the Khmer Rouge became the subject of the famous film, The Killing Fields, has died.
BBC article…
Category: dead people
Uncanny Valley.
You know what the uncanny valley [wiki] is, right ?
Well, ehm, this is uncanny valley. Really.
Urghh. Now I can’t sleep anymore.
The Sentinel. Gone.
Bummer. Another one of my heroes gone…
RIP Arthur C. Clarke.
I admit… I used to read a lot of science fiction during my Younger Years… It has attracted and fascinated me during my whole life - Science & Fiction, that is - and it has been a great influence on many aspects of my life, be […]
Darwin. Winner.
Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of an animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes, before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the beast suddenly unloaded. The sheer […]
“Licht”
Well, fuck that.
Another hero gone.
Fond memories about a trip to Berlin with my best friend and another fella to Berlin, late seventies, early eighties perhaps… We just wanted to buy avant-garde records which weren’t available in Belgium at that time.
At least one Stockhausen record was one of the goals. And we succeeded. Gloriously.
Damn. Sad to see […]