I have a new girl-crush on the lovely Zoetica Ebb, a "Godless bloodcrazed pervert and a sexual Mengele" [Warren Ellis]

"What pushes me in everything I do is the notion of fleeting time, a hyper-awareness of mortality...  Some vain desire to make people feel on my behalf, perhaps."

"Much of my inspiration comes from contradictions: Russian Orthodox iconography and the Futurists, Hentai and Da Vinci, The films of Gilliam, Cronenberg and Lynch, the books of Bulgakov, Kafka and Gibson alongside high fashion photography and Rococo. Nightmares, paranoia and sexual phobias paired with glossed lips, fancy tailoring and elaborate hair."

And, just to make her too perfect to be true, she's involved in Dr Sketchy's and Suicide Girls. 

Personal website:  http://www.biorequiem.com/

Modeling Flickr set:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoetica/sets/72157594572340695/

At Suicide Girls:  http://suicidegirls.com/members/Zoetica/news/

At CoilHouse:  http://coilhouse.net/author/zoetica/

At Haute Macabre:  http://hautemacabre.com/author/zoetica/

Interview at Jazma Online:  http://www.jazmaonline.com/interviews/interviews2007.asp?intID=622

...in my front yard?  Why a free shuttle engine, of course.  Nasa is giving them away to anyone who can pick it up.

We were debating whether or not we could get it running so that we could slag vehicles in the backyard on a drunken whim.  The main obstacle (besides Johnny Law and possibly frying the neighbor's pit bulls) would be aquiring fuel:  1,000 gallons per second of a 6:1 liquid hydrogen / liquid oxygen mix at 11,000 psi.  Crux42 suggested a field of water-to-hydrogen toy rocket converter kits.  40 or so running for about a decade should do the trick.

If anyone can come up with a better fuel solution, let me know quickly before Nasa discovers Craig's List.

via io9:  http://io9.com/5451549/nasa-giving-away-space-shuttle-engines-for-free-+-to-anyone-who-can-pick-them-up