Take a break from the holiday hubbub and enjoy these SF-related Christmas links: Miss Cellania’s SciFi Christmas – All kinds of, um, miscellania about everything from Star Trek-themed Christmas ornaments to Little Timmy Cthulhu’s Christmas Miracle. Pulp SF Magazine Christmas Covers – Lots of neat vintage covers with holiday themes. SF Holiday e-Cards – Cthreepo,…

Time to clean up the ol’ Drafts folder. Most Annoying Post-Apocalypses – A list from Topless Robot. Squid Crafts – All kinds of patterns and instructions for making our favorite cephalopod. Best Skin-Melting Scenes in SF – Now here’s a rather creepily specific list, courtesy of io9. Alien Loves Predator – One of my favorite…

I’m a big fan of steampunk, due to a gothy fascination with Victorian culture and “retro-futurism.” I love the vibe of mass-produced mixed with one-off craftsmanship in the alternate-history technology that’s such a hallmark of the genre. If you’re a fan, here are some links you might enjoy. The Steampunk Home – This blog is…

Here’s the perfect item for the young maniacal inventor on your gift list: Alphabet blocks lovingly engraved with a different mad scientific motif. Original pen-and-ink drawings are laser-engraved (natch) onto maple blocks, and they’re just gorgeous. The set of five includes all of the themes that any well-rounded mad scientist should explore: A – Appendages…

One of the few snippets of Lost in Space I ever managed to watch without losing consciousness involved June Lockhart serving various dishes, all prefixed with “space.” She presented “space soup,” and “space bread,” and “space potatoes” and it was right about then that I understood why Star Trek had such a hard time getting…

The Star Wars marketing department consists of a mob of people whacking at the grease spot where a horse once was, so it comes as no surprise whatsoever that there are multiple cookbooks related to the franchise. These two, Wookiee Cookies and Darth Malt, are aimed at juvenile readers and feature dishes like Tusken Raider…

Treat your dinner guests to some SF-themed drinks, courtesy of SciFi Scanner’s Kevin Maher. The Blade Runner sounds yummy. (via SF Signal)

Important safety tip! T-shirt available from The CBS Store. (via BoingBoing)

One nice thing about the Web is that it gives people with niche interests a way to share their particular obsession with the world, thus fractionally increasing the sum of all human knowledge. With Justin Pinchot’s Toy Raygun, we’re one step closer to achieving the noösphere. It is dedicated to “the celebration and study” of…

This was presented on my[confined]space with no notation as to where it came from, which is a crying shame because I want one. “Look at the time! It’s a tetrapod past a sponge.” “Let’s hurry, the movie starts at prosimian sharp.” I’d have to be physically restrained from telling people the time. (via Pharyngula)