Irma Arkus
- Location
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Birthday
- December 30
- Bio
- Broadcaster, PR and Communications worker. Labouring hard...digitally.
Worked my little butt off in TV, radio, print, communications and PR.
Obsessed with communications, visual art, science fiction, and old as well as new media.
Now living in sushi-eating lotus land up north.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Alcatraz Is No Fringe
February 03, 2012 01:26PM - Falling Skies embroiled in a
court case
February 03, 2012 01:07PM - Doctor Who Q&A session
December 08, 2011 03:27AM - Game of Thrones: Season 2
Preview
December 08, 2011 02:33AM - Youtube roundup: Tonight I’m
Frakking You and Minecraft
Girlfriend
December 03, 2011 06:00AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “mmmm. just watched
Buckaroo Banzai and she was
awesomely
cheesy in that
film.”
January 08, 2010 05:25PM - “I was very much
anti-plastic-whatever-and-so-o
n but was
prescribed a botox
treatm…”
December 17, 2009 02:50PM - “shit. I must be doing a
lot of things
wrong.
thanks for the
lovely words
emmapeel…”
December 14, 2009 11:58PM - “I'm loving your labour
perspective. You are right.
Statistics
reveal that the
gre…”
December 14, 2009 01:54PM - “I would appreciate all
confirmed and potential
carcinogens
italicised or
underlin…”
December 14, 2009 01:41PM
Irma Arkus's Links
Alcatraz Is No Fringe

While Fringe is winding down, with Fox announcing this fourth season will also be its last, J. J. Abrams unveiled its supposed TV inheritor: Alcatraz.
On the surface, Alcatraz has numerous similarities to… Read full post »
Falling Skies embroiled in a court case
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Corptocracy is getting complicated these days, as font use is
kicking both Harry Potter and Falling Skies franchises. Matius
Gerardo Grieck, a font specialist and designer, has filed a lawsuit
naming TBS and/… Read full post »
Doctor Who Q&A session
Game of Thrones: Season 2 Preview
Glimpse of long awaited Season 2 of the greatest show in the world: Game of Thrones. Based on George R. R. Martin’s incredible series of novels, the show, made by HBO, has exceeded… Read full post »
Youtube roundup: Tonight I’m Frakking You and Minecraft Girlfriend
I bring you Minecraft Girlfriend. This is the story of one man’s descent into madness through Minecraft penis sculptures. I actually wrote the script for this one and it was produced by my friends… Read full post »
HiSciFi: Copyright in Canada_Russell McOrmond
Russell McOrmond hails from Ottawa and is an outspoken critic of new measures introduced in Bill C-32, a bill aiming to reform current copyright laws in Canada, specifically those regarding draconian Digital Locks.
Tune… Read full post »
HiSciFi: Murdoch vs WikiLeaks, plus Giant Robots
Lord of Recycling (LotR parody )
The latest Megasteakman video is out and turns the humble act of recycling into an epic battle for the fate of the world. It’s a Lord of the Ring’s parody that uses littering… Read full post »
Miku Hastune live …. what.
It happened awhile ago, but the concerts are still going. What concerts? Miku Hastune and the vocoder characters live. Live? You mean like actors in cosplay, right? The characters are fictional they can’t… Read full post »
Seeing what the brain sees.
Recently Berkley scientists used fMRI data to reconstruct images processed by the brain by using YouTube videos to build a computer vision model. Linked above are some of the reconstructions they’ve made using… Read full post »
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO and Dubstep Guns
So my buddies down at Megasteakman have uncovered some deleted scenes from George Lucus’ endless reimaginings of the Star Wars Franchise. Yes, it’s all about the No’s. The guys at Megasteakman are longtime… Read full post »
PLUGGED IN CYBORGS: Going Wireless
NYTimes reports of new advancements in telekinesis, of
the electronic kind, of course.
New developments in electroencephalography suggest that Army (yes, you military giants with seemingly incalculable budgets for all kinds of nifty and… Read full post »
LEGO electrophoresis
http://citizensciencequarterly.com/2011/09/12/lego-electrophoresis-box/
Gel electrophoresis is a molecular biology technique that is often used to visualize, purify, or separate DNA based on the size of the DNA molecules inside a solution. It uses an electric… Read full post »
Back to the Future 2 running shoes
It’s the future and now we finally have the appropriate footware. Nike is releasing a line of running shoes inspired by the futuristic running shoes that Marty McFly uses in Back to the… Read full post »
Creative Ideas Get You Nowhere
New research at the University of Pennsylvania reveals that most people reject truly creative ideas.
The organizational behaviour study, The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas, scheduled to be published… Read full post »
Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler
In the latest round of interviews on the subject of Doctor Who, Moffat reveals some uncomfortable hints and truths: for one, he is less enthusiastic about Doctor Who than he is about Sherlock,… Read full post »
Samsung Defends Its Patent by Using a Sci-Fi Classic

There is a patent war at hand, and all the telecommunications companies engaged in these protracted, legal battles. In the latest face-off, Samsung’s legal team resorted to using clips from 2001: A Space… Read full post »
NASA Goes Sci-Fi

NASA has recently lost its space shuttle program. The space, as of now, is largely a private affair. It may seem like a win, but really, looking at it closer, it is largely… Read full post »
Underwater Superspeed Train Revealed: 4,000mph underwater train from New York to London
Few years ago, when Iraq war was at its very ugly head, the rumours flooded the media regarding an established Iraqi scientists who made headway on research into underwater propulsion and was scooped off… Read full post »
Spiderman Reboot: Trailer: The Amazing Spiderman
watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XayxMPrUP4
The newly released trailer full of fresh faces is meant to reboot a relatively new franchise. Not unusual for a comic book, yet a relatively short time for a film… Read full post »
Bioelectrodes
Awhile ago on the show I mentioned a bit about bioelectrodes made from enzyme-coated nanotubes. Here’s the paper that was published on it:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n6/full/ncomms1365.html?WT.ec_id=NCOMMS-20110628
What I found really cool was that it provi… Read full post »
SciFi Gateway Will Open Books to Public

It is absurd that anyone would wait for 14 days in order to get an electronic copy of a book. Yes, it is absurd.
Luckily, the SF Gateway, considered one of the largest… Read full post »
UK: Police DNA Database Will Not Eliminate Records of Innocent Individuals
It was a shock for me to find out that Vancouver Police Department, for example, has information on as much as three quarters of local population in their databases, even though, these are technically… Read full post »
Updates
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Fringe 4.11: Alternate Astrid
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Must the Rich be Lured into Investing?
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Does The Biggest Loser Fuel Weight Stigma?
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Cheap Car Insurance Options For Different Life Stages
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New post at SIMF: Soylent Green for Dinner?
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My Top Ten Netflix Streaming Suggestions
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The 'problem' w/ BEAUTY & THE BEAST is the Beast, not Belle.
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