–The Boston Globe has a report (second from the top) on the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender. “The device, the size of a hand held power tool, can lift a 250-pound load more than 600 feet at a rate of nearly 10 feet per second — on a single battery charge.” Bruce Wayne’s patent lawyers are surely on the case …
–Speaking of Batman, Little Rashy has a Batman story up on his LiveJournal.
–Artwork to the right, by the way, is Humberto Ramos’ rendition of Harry Potter. As if his Runaways wasn’t cool enough …
–Tom Foss over at The Fortress of Soliloquy is celebrating Black History Month with 30 days of black comic characters — Amanda Waller, Alex Wilder, Cloak and Angstrom Levy have been featured, among others. Worth checking out.
–I’d love to be smart enough to say something intelligent about this. But of course, I see it as an opportunity to wonder where Jonathan Lethem’s Omega the Unknown series is …
