Using a carbonite-encased Han Solo as a desk makes much more sense than just propping him against a wall. Link (via Cynical-C)

The Website at the End of the Universe points to a couple of sites which examine books written a few decades ago to see how well their predictions about today hold up. The results are definitely mixed. The Pointless Museum has pretty scans of The Usborne Book of the Future, written in 1979 about the…

I’m tempted to apply for random jobs just to submit something similar. See the whole thing here (via Miss Cellania)

Here’s an interesting exercise in alternate history: What if every time a separatist movement arose in North America, it succeeded? The Strange Maps blog features a map that redraws the face of the continent to feature this balkanization. What if Napoleon had refused the Louisiana Purchase? What if the Mormons had founded the state of…

Designer Lasse Klein has developed this prototype lamp and is now trying to get it produced. I don’t know how effective it would actually be as a light source, but it’s adorable. Features and add-ons include “alien abductors,” “human abductee,” and “bovine abductee.” There’s something about the vaguely puzzled-looking cow that completely cracks me up.…

Topless Robot has an amusing gallery of Star Wars action figures that unintentionally look like celebrities. (Click on each thumbnail to get a better view of the toys’ faces.) Link (via BoingBoing)

Artist Andrey Kuznetsov has created a series of Russian folk-art woodcuts based on classic SF movies. (Also possibly some fantasy; I didn’t recognize the inspiration for some of the vignettes.) The site is entirely in Cyrillic, but there are thumbnails. They’re really quite wonderful. (Note: Some rotating ads on this site may be NSFW.) Link…

Sherri, a “food geek” with a “morbid sense of humor” was having a baby, so she designed her baby shower cake to feature the chestburster from Alien. Based on this sentence alone, I believe that Sherri is my new best friend. The monster was sculpted out of marzipan and garnished with blood-colored syrup. The cake…

Artist AlexCF describes himself as a “retrofuture cryptozoological assemblage artist and illustrator.” i like to create items and objects from a past that wasnt quite; to fashion the things you wish existed in forgotten attics or secret rooms, dust covered relics of a time when the world was the same – but not quite, an…