There is a company called Steorn, and they have me very excited. I've been loosely following news surrounding the company ever since I read an article about their call to scientists the world over to test their "free-energy" technology and prove them wrong (they claimed to have broken the law of conservation of energy, and in a nutshell created a perpetual motion machine that produces clean, constant energy and has an efficiency rate that is > 100%). I won't go into too many details here, because the story is a long one, but you can read about it here and here (thanks for the research, work buddies!). Steorn has discussed the involvement of magnets before, but recently they revealed more information about it... namely magnetic viscosity. The short explanation is that the law of conservation of energy does not take into account the amount of time that the work put into a system takes, and it can affect the amount of energy produced by a system. There is a slight latency when dealing with magnetic attraction, and if the work put in is faster than this latency, then you have a slight net gain in the energy coming out. I'm sure I'm messing this up completely. The humanitarian impact of free, constant, clean energy is ridiculous. There is a public demonstration in London in July, and I am seriously considering going... it's too exciting/scary/intriguing (even if it is a hoax, which I hope it isn't).

There is a new trailer for Assassin's Creed, which looks incredible - but what impacted me the most was the song used, "Lonely Soul." I immediately recognized the voice of Richard Ashcroft; he was the singer of The Verve, and Urban Hymns is one of my favorite albums of all time. I was super excited, did some research, and apparently he is one of many vocalists with the Unkle project. From what I've heard so far, the tracks sound really cool. Hot damn, new music!



Sitting in my hotel in sb, flatting pages for Amulet, patiently waiting for June.