Chip Zdarsky's Watchmen 2

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13655

"There are only a few sacred no-no rules in the comics industry: Uncle Ben can never return to life, Wonder Woman must never sell well, Archie's freckled dingle must never be seen to enter Betty's marvellous choo-choo, and nobody should ever write a Watchmen follow-up."

CANAL STREET CROSS-SECTION

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/canal-street-cross-section.html

"The problem," as he explains it, "was to make all that architecture work together and make sense visually. I was able to do that by having windows on the sides of the piece to accommodate the cross views. I gave the subway platform a sense of depth by using a carefully placed mirror at the far end. As with almost all of my projects, the sight lines were critical." The piece, we might say, required a kind of Piranesian optical correction so that all its cross-angles and counterviews could be spatially comprehensible.

Iron Man Gets Steampunk Makeover by Toy Modder

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/04/steampunk-iron-man/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

Once More, With Feeling: Joss Whedon Revisits ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/once-more-with-feeling-joss-whedon-revisits-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog/

"I have been alerted to this fact by certain of my friends. When I saw us going up against “Empire Strikes Back,” all I could think was, “Oh, they’re gonna hate it. They’re gonna hate us. They’re gonna call our fans names.” But while “Empire Strikes Back” is for me the more seminal film, “Serenity” at least has an ending. I don’t know when “The Matrix” got voted down – that’s my favorite. It is starting to be a double-edged sword. There’s no greater sadness than not still being on board that ship with that crew, in my career. All I can think is, maybe someday, someone at Universal will say, “Hey, we made money. Let’s do that again.” So I’m glad that it lives. But I also know that every time it gets in one of those polls, against beloved movies, we just get flamed. I feel sad, too."

Debut of the first practical 'artificial leaf'

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-debut-artificial-leaf.html

"The device bears no resemblance to Mother Nature's counterparts on oaks, maples and other green plants, which scientists have used as the model for their efforts to develop this new genre of solar cells. About the shape of a poker card but thinner, the device is fashioned from silicon, electronics and catalysts, substances that accelerate chemical reactions that otherwise would not occur, or would run slowly. Placed in a single gallon of water in a bright sunlight, the device could produce enough electricity to supply a house in a developing country with electricity for a day, Nocera said. It does so by splitting water into its two components, hydrogen and oxygen."

Templated growth technique produces graphene nanoribbons with metallic properties

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-templated-growth-technique-graphene-nanoribbons.html

"A new "templated growth" technique for fabricating nanoribbons of epitaxial graphene has produced structures just 15 to 40 nanometers wide that conduct current with almost no resistance. These structures could address the challenge of connecting graphene devices made with conventional architectures – and set the stage for a new generation of devices that take advantage of the quantum properties of electrons."

Desert Lodges

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/14287/oppenheim-architecture-design-desert-lodges.html