sagas of icelanders

MacMerc —
April 20, 2004.  
“Hey man, if somebody takes a picture of something and then you get Photoshop to draw the same thing right on top of it, only going outside the designated original art to make it looks somewhat comic book like, what do call that? I call it my latest tutorial! Use this baby to convert your digital pictures and scans into comic book style illustrations.”

Sean M. Burke —
“One day in about 1997, I was poking around in a mostly uninteresting used bookstore in Albuquerque, New Mexico, sifting aimlessly through books in the sciences section, when I stumbled on a bland-looking old book with the title Engineering Descriptive Geometry…. I’ll simply note that I bought that first book I found; and for several years thereafter I collected books in a similar vein. This little web gallery is my selection of the best of the illustrations from those books.”

New Scientist — April 4, 2004.  
Frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against prostate cancer, suggests the largest study of the issue to date yet.

New Scientist — April 4, 2004.  
Sony’s QRIO humanoid robot led the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a unique rendition of Beethoven’s 5th symphony during a concert held at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo on 15 March.

Museum of Hoaxes — From the Swiss spaghetti harvest to the case of the interfering brassieres and beyond.