-
Notice Anything Different?
Yeah, I got sick of the boring old theme. So now we have a boring new theme. That’s called progress.
-
This Makes Me Oddly Happy
Stanford University physicist Shamit Kachru and three colleagues recently released a paper with the euphonious title Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking which contained this sentence: While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a…
-
Captain Picard Has a Blog
Who knew? Why I get invited to see the new technology is beyond me. Do Starfleet want my approval or something? I doubt it, as they never listen to me anyway. Link (I love the Internet….)
-
I Have to Agree
Mimi Smartypants says: No better headline has ever been written.
-
Life in the Year 2000
The PaleoFuture blog has a number of posts about depictions of 21st-Century life as envisioned at the very beginning of the 20th Century, such as this very cool collection of prints from 1910 which predict everyday life in the year 2000. I love the “Correspondence Cinema” one; you can almost hear the lady saying, “Help…
-
Looking for a Few Good Blogs
It’s high time the O*W*C beefed up the ol’ blogroll. Got recommendations for SF-related blogs we should be showcasing? Leave us a comment and let us know! Also, there is a metric ton of SF authors’ blogs out there. Should we try to blogroll some percentage of those, or should we concentrate on SF news-type…
-
Celebrity Star Wars
Worth 1000 is a site where Photoshop jockeys vie to create the best image on a given theme. The thing that always blows me away about this particular site is the professionalism of the entries; they’re just seamless. Anyway, this contest theme is pretty self-explanatory. Fun! Link (via The Presurfer)
-
Brass Goggles: “The Lighter Side of Steampunk”
This neat blog tracks all manner of steampunkery, from interesting e-Bay finds to book reviews. I have kind of a soft spot for the genre, even though I’m not a big fan of its cyberpunk progenitor, just because the artifacts it inspires are so pretty. (Part of this, I’m sure, is because it’s retroactively claimed…
-
Gorey Does “Star Trek”
Shaenon Garrity read an article about Edward Gorey’s fondness for Star Trek, and has done a most wonderful interpretation of “The Trouble With Tribbles” in the Gorey style. She has so far not followed up on her implied threat to do a Gorey interpretation of “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.” :::whew::: Link (via SF Signal)
-
The Last Jedi Supper
As this blogger points out, Jedi is a recognized religion, so this makes sense. I’d particularly like to see this as a fresco in a church, along with stained-glass windows like this one. (via Neatorama)