Gaming house Junction Point Studios appears to be working on a game which offers a rather apocalyptic take on Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom. Over at Oh No They Didn’t they’ve unearthed quite a bit of concept art and collected rumors of an upcoming game for the Wii codenamed “Epic Mickey.” If they actually…

For those of you who attend our nightly science fiction chats: Hey guys! We fixed it! For those of you who don’t: We’ve been limping along with a supremely wonky chat engine for quite a long time now, and I finally got sufficiently fed up to do something about it. We’ve got a brand-new chat…

Ever feel overwhelmed with the choice of what to read, watch, or listen to next? James at Big Dumb Object felt that the resources available to help you make a decision were too cumbersome: To help you there are a myriad of web sites: catalogue everything you’ve ever read, make friends and let them make…

Shawn Gaston, who was the artist half of the short-lived-but-amusing RPG webcomic Chainmail Bikini, has launched a new project. Clockworks is a steampunk/fantasy story, set in a world of giant stompy robots, outlawed magic, forgotten and dangerous old gods, ether driven mad science, and goggle wearing heroes who travel the world in search of danger…

I have a bunch of Twitter feeds in my RSS aggregator, including the ones belonging to Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton. This recent set of tweets amused me immoderately (click to embiggen):

Wolfram|Alpha has come online. It looks a bit like a search engine, but its stated purpose is “making the world’s knowledge computable.” Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make…

We mentioned Sean Tevis, the “Candidate from the Internet” previously. He lost the election (although it was close, which is still quite a feat considering that he was a complete unknown running against a career politician). He’s begun campaigning for another run in 2010, and has come up with an interesting way to let donors…

Wired Magazine’s long-running feature FOUND–images of futuristic everyday objects, presented without comment–was discontinued a few months ago. MetaFilter has collected a list of the archived images from 2004 onward. These are wonderful, at once whimsical and strangely plausible. I especially like the space elevator and diaper. Link (via Dark Roasted Blend)

Sean Wang, an artist and writer who has worked on such comics as The Tick, began a SF adventure comic called Runners in 2000. The story follows the exploits of a band of alien smugglers as they “they struggle to complete hazardous runs through outlaw space and against all odds.” He’s now decided to make…

Omegle is a simple chat site that connects you to a random person, anonymously, for a conversation. That’s it. I saw it mentioned on the xkcd blag, and my first thought was, “This is IRC 2.0,” but after reading some other users’ comments it actually sounds kind of fun. I like the fact that the…