The tragedy of Mead is that there’s wonderful mead out there and there’s awful mead out there. It’s as if there was beer better than any beer you’ve ever tasted, and beer that tasted as if it had already gone through someone’s digestive system once, and you didn’t know which kind you were likely to get if someone offered you a beer.
The awful mead seemed to fit with American Gods better.
Realtidsstrategispelet Northgard, som baseras på nordisk mytologi, har nu släppts för Android. Spelet fanns tidigare för plattformar som PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation och Xbox.
Spelare styr en klan av vikingar som slåss för kontroll över en ny kontinent. Northgard inkluderar bland annat att bygga bosättningar, tilldela karaktärer olika arbeten, hantera resurser och försöka utöka klanens områden.
Gränssnittet har optimerats för pekskärmar. Ordinarie priset i Google Play är 90 kronor, men priset är i skrivande stund 60 kronor tack vare ett öppningserbjudande.
You know how capybaras always seem to have a slightly skeptical look on their faces? Turns out what they’re skeptical of might be rich people’s bullshit. Now, in Argentina, they’re fighting back. Groups of the charismatic rodents have been causing a ruckus in the fancy-pants gated community of Nordelta, crapping in…
The angel hourglass is from the illustrated edition, but the demon hourglass I asked to have customized - I always hated when the books show Crowley with leathery wings despite clearly stating angel and demon wings are the same save for grooming. So I wanted black feathery wings with a snake tail and my amazing artist obliged! I even shaped the tail like Crowley’s tattoo.
Best part of course is that Neil did Crowley’s handwriting on the show, so it’s like having Crowley’s writing on me too!
I mean, I did do the Crowley handwriting on the show…
Someone took an FPV (first person view) drone to the world’s highest waterfall and captured 5K footage. This is absolutely stunning. I highly recommend finding the biggest screen you have and standing way too close to it.
A staggering 94.2% of adults in England have antibodies for covid-19, according to a new report from the UK’s Office of National Statistics. Roughly 80.7% of England’s population has been fully vaccinated, suggesting the rest of the 94.2% acquired antibodies through natural infection with the coronavirus.
I Mira Grants Newsflesh-serie(2010–2016) har de döda börjat återuppstå i jakt på människokött efter att en virussjukdom spridit sig världen över. Närvaron av zombier har i denna futuristiska värld framförallt inneburit två stora skillnader: 1) världen är försatt i mer eller mindre permanent pandemiberedskap för att minska zombievirusets spridning så mycket det bara går och 2) bloggare står för en stor del av världens nyhetsbevakning. Medan majoriteten av åtminstone de västerländska samhällenas invånare stannar hemma, arbetar på distans och får livsmedel hemlevererade, bistår bloggarna med nyheter, underhållning och content från världen utanför hemmets trygga vrå. ”Newsies” bidrar med konventionell nyhetsrapportering och granskande reportage, ”Irwins” med häftiga videoklipp där de slåss med zombier, ”Fictionals” med berättelser, dikter och fanfic. Newsflesh-serien handlar om en bloggsajt som börjar nysta i vad som utvecklar sig till en gigantisk konspiration hos den amerikanska smittskyddsmyndigheten och deras kamp för att få fram sanningen om virushanteringen.
När jag läste första boken, Feed, på en jobbresa i Reykjavik 2019 tyckte jag skildringen av ett samhälle där att vara ute bland folk är förenat med fara och samtliga medborgare utsätts för konstant provtagning för att hålla viruset i schack kändes exotisk och intressant. Det är ovanligt med en zombiebok som inte innefattar en total civilisationskollaps, men framförallt var Grants zombiedrabbade värld radikalt annorlunda mot den värld jag levde i just då.
När jag nu tre år senare läser resterande delar i serien, är det snarare idén om sociala medier som ett trovärdighetens och objektivitetens altare i en världsomspännande konspirationshärva som känns exotisk. Medan Grants skildring av ett virusdrabbat samhälle får serien att framstå som förutseende och tidsenlig, bidrar bloggarna med det motsatta. Det blir plötsligt väldigt tydligt att Feed publicerades 2010, då bloggar för det första var en grej och sociala medier för det andra fortfarande förknippades mer med demokrati och folkligt deltagande än desinformationskampanjer, polarisering och näthat.
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Hej! Undrar du vem denna nya person som plötsligt börjat blogga här är? Mitt namn är Anna Bark Persson och jag är här för att skriva längre saker om fantastiklitteratur än vad Twitter tillåter men kortare och med mindre referenser än vad jag måste göra i mitt jobb. Jag gissar att de flesta av bloggens läsare redan vet vem jag är, men för de som inte gör det så skrev jag tidigare på bokbloggen In Another Library, är engagerad i sf-fandom precis som Maria och Johan och läser fantastiklitteratur i alla dess former, men framförallt science fiction och episk fantasy. Till vardags är jag doktorand i genusvetenskap och skriver på en avhandling om vikingar, fantasylitteratur och maskulinitet. Du hittar mig också på @annabarkpersson.
It’s happened to all of us: You’ve been browsing your hard drive and found hundreds of gigabytes of lengthy video files of the inside of your office, apparently filmed without your awareness. Dozens or possibly hundreds of hours of footage of whatever you’re up to when you don’t think you’re being observed, and you…
Your Thanksgiving viewing is set: Marvel’s long-anticipated Hawkeye series, starring Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld, finally has a premiere date. It’ll debut on Disney+ on Wednesday, November 24th!
Disney+ announced the date with an exclusive (if unremarkable) look at the show’s two stars:
Hawkeye will introduce Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, who—in the comics, at least—idolized Hawkeye and eventually took up his mantle. She’s perhaps best known from Matt Fraction and David Aja’s run on the Hawkeye comics, in which she and Barton worked together to stop the “tracksuit mafia” from running Clint’s neighbors out of his Bed-Stuy apartment building. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Renner describes the show’s Kate like this: “She has a wonderfully annoying and equally charming manner about her, because she’s such a fangirl of Hawkeye. The relationship grows from that, but the biggest problem for Clint is Kate Bishop and the onslaught of problems that she brings into his life.”
As much as you can read anything into this image, it looks like either Clint Barton has found Kate’s training space, or they’re doing some training together. (But this is way too much color for it to belong to Clint “I have no fun, ever, what is fun” Barton alone.)
Florence Pugh, who played Yelena in Black Widow, is also set to appear in Hawkeye, which makes a lot of sense now that we’ve seen the post-credits scene in Widow. The show also stars Vera Farmiga as Kate Bishop’s mother, and Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, who may be getting her own spinoff series before too long.
Hawkeye is the fifth Marvel series to air on Disney+ this year, following WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, and the upcoming What If…?, which begins August 11th. Ms. Marvel is expected to arrive this year as well, but a release date hasn’t so much as been hinted at yet.
Hawkeye premieres on Disney+ on Wednesday, November 24th.
I mean, it’s actually not funny. Stoats were introduced to New Zealand by idiots who brought them to try and deal with the rabbits they had previously introduced to New Zealand, who were breeding like rabbits. And the stoats went “hurrah! A land where birds have no predators and some of them even lay their eggs in burrows! Let us feast in this new land!” So dealing with stoats is a real problem.
But Stoat on the Loose is such a great title. And it’s obviously followed up by Stoat on the Loose 2: Stoat in the Big City and Stoat on the Loose 3: Stoats in Space.
If you wear glasses you probably have microfiber cleaning cloths stashed all-around your home because like death and taxes, your lenses getting dirty is inevitable. But why spend half your day rubbing dust and grease away when you can drop your specs into the LensHD and let the tiny washing machine do all the hard…
New research out today is the latest to indicate that people who catch covid-19 can experience lingering effects after recovering. The study, based on Fitbit data collected from hundreds of users, found that it took around two to three months for the elevated heart rates of covid-19 survivors to return to normal…
The new DisCon III chair is Mary Robinette Kowal. The announcement came the day after Kowal completed her term as President of SFWA, which ended June 30. DisCon III started out with two co-chairs, however, Colette Fozard resigned in January … Continue reading →
I have some exciting news to share with you all today. It’s official: I’ve accepted the role of Con Chair for Discon III, the 79th Worldcon. I’ve met with the department heads, and I can tell you now that they are a wonderful, highly competent group of people. I am thrilled to be working with them; I could not possibly ask for a better team to support an inclusive and successful Worldcon.
The science fiction and fantasy community is beautiful, diverse, and filled with excellent people who care deeply for one another. It has long been important to me to give back to that community in any way I can. I’ve made so many friends, met so many loved ones. Being able to serve the community is something that brings me happiness, joy, and a sense of belonging – and I want everyone to have a chance to experience that joy at Worldcon 79.
As you may know, I am a finalist in two categories for the Hugo awards this year. To prevent conflicts of interest, we will be maintaining a full firewall between myself and the independent subcommittee responsible for the voting and administration of the 2021 Hugo Awards. Maintaining the integrity of the awards is deeply important to me, and one of my conditions for considering the role was that we maintain that firewall. Any questions about the Hugo Awards should be addressed to hugoadmin@discon3.org.
I encourage you all to read the full announcement with additional information over at DisCon III, and, further, I hope to see you all in December – whether that be virtually or in person!
New research out Tuesday supports fears that at least some prisons in the U.S. have been a breeding ground for the pandemic. The study found a link between increased cases of covid-19 during the first wave last year and counties where state prisons were located. Most of these cases were likely the result of the…
If, unlike me, you don’t spend an embarrassing number of hours scrolling through TikTok each week, you may be wondering why the campy disco hit “Rasputin” is climbing the charts more than four decades after its original release. Boney M.’s ‘70s ode to “Russia’s greatest love machine” is having one hell of a moment,…
Att OnePlus är nära besläktat med Oppo har inte varit någon hemlighet, även om Oppo i början förnekade att de hade något med OnePlus att göra. OnePlus vd Pete Lau har nu berättat att tillverkaren gått samman med Oppo.
Flera av OnePlus team hade redan slagits ihop med Oppo för att strömlinjeforma verksamheten och dra fördel av delade resurser. Vad som gäller rent formellt framgår inte, men Lau skriver att OnePlus ”har integrerats djupare i Oppo”.
Enligt Lau kan sammanslagningen leda till snabbare och mer stabila uppdateringar för OnePlus-telefoner. Själva OnePlus-märket kommer dock finnas kvar och OnePlus kommer fortsätta släppa produkter.
A new computer simulation shows that a technologically advanced civilization, even when using slow ships, can still colonize an entire galaxy in a modest amount of time. The finding presents a possible model for interstellar migration and a sharpened sense of where we might find alien intelligence.
Police is Western Australia have accessed private data from the state’s covid-19 check-in app at least twice to aid in a criminal investigation, despite promises the app would only be used by contact tracers. The revelations are likely to make people think twice before using the app, a public health tool that’s…
Bikes have long been a greener (and cheaper) alternative to cars, assuming you actually know how to ride one, but a talented Chinese engineer is taking that requirement out of the equation with a self-balancing electric bike that’s smart enough to get around a city all by itself.
ProtonMail, the popular encrypted email service, has significantly updated its look and feel for the first time since the company’s public beta launch 7 years ago. It’s also rolled out some new features that are worth checking out.
A megadrought has stricken the Southwest, taking a massive toll on ecosystems, drinking water, farms, and more in seven states. One of those states, Nevada, is taking a permanent step to protect dwindling water resources by cracking down on the scourge of useless lawns.
Convention codes of conduct really are a contemporary development, so while researching early Hugo history I was surprised to discover this one in the final paragraph of the “Convention Rules” of the 1955 Worldcon (see Clevention – PR 4 page … Continue reading →
so don’t miss @JeremyRenner and @HaileeSteinfeld in this @EW exclusive first-look at Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye. The Original Series starts streaming Wednesday, November 24 on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/B2O358r7nP
