Hulleye Comes By!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8pK_q-_6dw

Worth1000 recently had a fantastic photoshopping contest of cartoon characters in historic art. this one of he-man is one of my favourites. there are some brilliant entries. check them out here.

Can creative writers put their egos to one side and work successfully as a team? That’s the question Penguin and De Montfort University are exploring with a new literary experiment - a collaborative wiki-novel.Based on the principles of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the novel, called A Million Penguins, is open to anyone to join in, write and edit. None of the words, characters or plot twists will be attributed to any individual and - and this is the element of the project most likely to bruise delicate egos - participants are free to edit, chop and change other writers’ work.

In an effort to avoid the kinds of “reversion wars” which blight Wikipedia, a “core team” of students from De Montfort’s Creative Writing and New Media course will act as moderators and the ethical guidelines listed on the wiki urge contributors to “be polite” and to treat others’ contributions as they would like their own to be treated. Nonetheless, it is a shot in the dark, as Penguin acknowledge.

A Million Penguins.

A Million Penguins Blog.

Astronomers say they can now compute with great confidence which asteroids pose a threat to our planet. The problem, they told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), is that preventing a collision would require mounting a not-yet-planned space mission by a not-yet-identified governmental body.The next known close encounter with an asteroid will occur, somewhat ominously, on Friday the 13th of April 2029. Then, Near-Earth Object 99942–also known as Apophis (Greek for “The Demon of Darkness”)–is expected to miss the planet by a mere 30,000 kilometers. The real sweating begins soon after, when astronomers must determine whether Earth’s gravity has steered Apophis onto a course for impact seven years later. Current calculations place the chance of that happening at about one in 30,000.

At 250 meters wide, Apophis is five times larger than the object that hit Earth 50,000 years ago and blew out the 1200-meter-wide Meteor Crater in Arizona. It’s also six times larger than the Tunguska object, which grazed Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over Siberia in 1908, flattening 2100 square kilometers of forest.