Flotsam, Jetsam for 06/28/2007

• “In 1907, the fastest vehicle on the planet was powered by steam. Now, steam vehicles have a reputation (whether true or not) for being slow, inefficient and generally rubbish – but that may not be the way it has to be. The British Steam Car Challenge team are making a new steam powered car, […]

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• "In 1907, the fastest vehicle on the planet was powered by steam. Now, steam vehicles have a reputation (whether true or not) for being slow, inefficient and generally rubbish - but that may not be the way it has to be. The British Steam Car Challenge team are making a new steam powered car, with four boilers and a very high tech chassis indeed - their aim being to break the 200mph (321kph) barrier that has stymied other attempts in the past. A technological achievement that would help to establish that steam is a technology with ‘legs’ yet!|

• The next stage of evolution: tetrochromat females.

• Speaking of the man who created gynecological instruments for operating on mutant vaginas and brought it to the big screen, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises has a trailer up.

• The Lambiek Comiclopedia, an illustrated compendium of over 9,000 comic artists, listed under last name (or pseudonym).

• No one in the world has had better album covers than that crazy ebony lioness, Miss Grace Jones.

• New London in the Future, from 1909.