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From the Archives
The O*W*C message boards aren’t going to be resurrected any time soon, and when they are we’ll probably start from scratch. There’s some fun stuff in there, though, so from time to time* I’ll dig through the database and share old posts. Look, here’s one now! The Alien Abduction Survey The Brunching Shuttlecocks, who take…
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Learn to Speak Futurese
In 1000 AD the sentence was: Wé cildra biddaþ þé, éalá láréow, þæt þú taéce ús sprecan rihte, forþám ungelaérede wé sindon, and gewæmmodlíce we sprecaþ… In 2000 AD it’s: We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly… In 3000 AD it…
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Songs of SF
Musician and SF fan John Anealio is merging his two hobbies by reading books and writing songs based on the plot. My name is Rick Deckard, I’m in my hover car I’m a bounty hunter for the city There’s six androids free, and it’s left to me tonight They’re the Nexus 6 and they get…
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“Futurism” Print
Dave Malki (who does Wondermark) created this handsome “Futurism” poster, suitable for any dorm room or fallout shelter. It’s the tag line that really makes me giggle: Link (I like this T-shirt, too.)
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Dabbled Robots
Dot at Dabbled draws winsome little illustrations, many of them featuring robots. She’s kindly made many of them available for download, such as this little guy, who’s part of a set of robot-themed party invitations and thank-you cards she did. I kind of like her Cthulhu ad poster, too. (Well, what else would Cthulhu be…
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Filk Radio
Live365 has a wide selection of streaming radio broadcasts, including filk stations. Type “filk” in the search box to bring up a list of broadcasts. I had no idea there was such a thing as an all-filk station. It sounds like a prank. (Hat tip to Wyrm)
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Ephemera
Random bits of silliness, probably not worth a post of their own. Botanicalls provides kits and instructions for building a device that will let your houseplants call you when they need water. They’ve recently expanded the mechanism so the plant can alert you via Twitter instead. On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dogwood. The…
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It’s Called epMotion
Shadow asked me just the other night if boy bands weren’t illegal. Sadly no: They’re being used to sell scientific equipment. Eppendorf is hawking its new pipette machine with a music video of a boy-band group singing a boy-band love song about how your social life will improve greatly if you let a machine handle…
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Time Travel Vacation Posters
We’ve mentioned the Echo Park Time Travel Mart previously. For a limited time, they’re offering five gorgeous travel posters advertising vacations in time. 826LA and the Echo Park Time Travel Mart are proud to premiere a collection of five original travel posters by Los Angeles based artist Amy Martin. Each poster advertises a vacation destination…
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If Star Wars was Real
You know those sites that occasionally make you go, “Wait…what?” Well, this is one of them. The premise is that many elements of Star Wars actually existed in real life and influenced the films, but George Lucas has engaged in a massive cover-up to make his movies seem more original and imaginative.* Anyway, the point…