Richard Alexander Hall

Archive for December, 2008

This was reported almost three months ago, and I haven’t heard a peep about this from the wider press.  How can this be?

“Galactic cosmic rays carry with them radiation from other parts of our galaxy,” said Ed Smith, NASA’s Ulysses project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “With the solar wind at an all-time low, there is an excellent chance the heliosphere will diminish in size and strength. If that occurs, more galactic cosmic rays will make it into the inner part of our solar system.”

Great, now we’re ruining not only the ozone layer, but we’re putting holes in the heliosphere way out beyond Pluto!  We have to stop polluting our planet – no, our solar system! I demand legislation to stop this now!

This find is delighting and making me chuckle this fine Christmas Eve Day.. Morning.

Book Of Time 3D Screensaver – This screen saver is a philosophic approach to the process of time. The book, which has next moment on each of its pages. On the one page it has the past on the next the future comes. Where is the present then? Maybe somewhere between these two ones. This screen saver makes it possible to behold the enigma while the time is turning over on the shabby old book’s pages. Do you want to look through the book till the end?

Sorry, but my $14.95 can get me better passage of my time.  Thanks for the chuckles though, Chucky!

Also:

Skull and Bones 3D Screensaver – Guard your desktop with this awesome screen saver. Bet you have never seen such lovely skull on your screen. You will see rotating skull and crossbones – the symbol of real threat. Molten metal effects and cool sunglasses combine perfectly with sinister background. Impressive 3D graphics along with tense urban sound effects will really amaze you. Download this screen saver now – it not only saves your screen, but also the entire computer.

Ar!  But can it save me from Engrish?  Never mind.  I need the laughs.

Based on feedback I got from a post I made to the Electric Sheep user’s forum (here – including from the creator of the screen saver himself!) on the.. electric fleece? – I updated them.  Many ready-to-order examples at my zazzle page.

I’ve unintentionally mislead people to thinking I designed the images in that page (linked from the previous post).  No – others have designed them; they are from an “electric sheep” screensaver.  I’ll update the top of the page to clarify (because it credits the electric sheep way down at the bottom.)

People that submit these images to the render farm which the screensaver coordinates – people use a program called Apophysis to design these “sheep”.  Coincidentally though, I have come on that program and used it independently.  I used it as the basis of the following image, which I worked up further in Painter X.  This is a large thumbnail – click it for the original huge size.

My first Apophysis-related image.