The CandlePowerForums members are having a long discussion about the everyday tools they’d carry around if they had access to any SF/F technology they wanted. Here’s one list: Pocket knife: Lightsaber, from Star Wars. Blue blade. Doubles as a torch. Firearm: DL-44 heavy blaster pistol, from Star Wars. Self-Defense: Ancient Personal Shield, from Stargate Atlantis.…

Child Development Lab – Awesome concept for a nursery. Tauntaun Groom’s Cake – With little sculpted entrails! How to Steam Up Your Old Goth Wardrobe – Article by steampunk/horror author Cherie Priest about moving from goth to steampunk. Cell Size and Scale – Neat scalable image illustrating the relative size of things from a coffee…

The Crotchety Old Fan, fed up with yet another article predicting the imminent demise of SF, has created a helpful template to let writers quickly scratch their prognosticatory itch and get on with other things. The (success) (failure) of (genre) (mainstream) (fantasy) (horror) (science fiction) (speculative fiction) is due to [] mainstream authors failure to…

Ryan Dunlavey did a series of comic strip/SFF mashups for Wizard and ToyFare Magazine, creating such wonderful combinations as “Phantom the Menace,” “Orlando Bloom County,” and “Kraven and Hobbes.” I especially like Dr. Doom and his “Psychiatric Help” stand. Link (Hat tip to RaptorLA)

Badasses: A Portrait (Click to enlarge) By artist seangordonmurphy, who clearly understands the Badass Nature. (via Topless Robot)

Now that Disney has bought Marvel, I can’t wait for She-Hulk to be the new Disney Princess — Sargent I bought a carton of oat milk just to support the kind of person who can find udders on an oat. — warrenellis Robot Celebrity Impersonator: “I AM JACK NICHOLSON. HERE IS JOHNNY. THAT IS ALSO…

Periodically one runs across something on the Internet which makes one go, “…qua?” Klenginem is one of those things. Growing up on the Klingon starbase Morska, it was no problem for Klenginem – whose real name is Quvar muHwI’ valer – to receive the most different kinds of communication waves, among which also the terran…

Nerdcore does a pinup calendar every year with scantily-clad models dressed as science fiction characters or superheroines or whatever makes the geeky heart go pit-a-pat. Their theme for 2010 is horror movies, featuring scenes from Carrie, The Shining, Psycho, and other genre classics. Destructoid has the first nine images and Shock Till You Drop has…

The 10 Rules of Time Travel – 1. At all costs, avoid your ancestors. Super Social Networking – Facebook statuses of superheroes. Knit Alien Facehugger – Complete with pattern! Particle Physics T-shirt – This made me giggle. Evolution – Nice roundup of the more common arguments by evolution deniers, along with rebuttals. Mario-Inspired Eveningwear –…

Alien Relationships If there’s one thing humankind is known for it’s tolerance. Except for how the exact opposite is true. A sure fire way to get a bug in someone’s ass, other than with a speculum and generous amounts of lubricant is to present to them something they find unnatural. While Star Trek would have…