I was digging around in the stat logs and checked the search phrases that have brought people to the O*W*C. Below are some phrases that people have actually entered (first question: Why?!?) which have led them to this site: catwoman inventor of ramen quote students with cranial shunts miniature marzipan vegetables rupaul s quotes autumn…

The McFly 2015 project is a movement to convince Nike to produce the futuristic-looking sneakers worn by Marty McFly in the year 2015 scene of Back to the Future 2.Link (via Neatorama) Update: I just got an e-mail from “Mickey” Maloof, the co-founder of the project: This is an update on the official website of…

So I saw this article on Yahoo News, stating that Entertainment Weekly had released a list of the very best SF TV and movies in the past 25 years, and that The Matrix had come in at #1. And I thought, “Oh, hell no,” and clicked over to the site, full of righteous indignation…only to…

Carel Struycken, whose acting resume essentially consists of, “That Big Guy” (he played Mr. Homn on ST:TNG and Lurch in the Addams Family movies), has a hobby taking really amazing spherical panoramic pictures. Unexpected. Neat.Link

The Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above-Average Physique have a bunch of new merit badges! Recently, our badges have doubled in number (new ones include various levels of the “I build robots” badge; the “I’ve named a child or pet for science” badge” and the “I AM actually a freakin’ rocket…

At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07

These Pixel Watches from ODM use electro-luminescent technology to display the time. From 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the watch also performs an on-screen scrolling animation every hour. Available in white, brown or pink for $160. I can see Roy Batty consulting one of these. “Hm, 4 p.m. Time to die.” Link (via SciFi Tech)

Geologists in Serbia have found a new mineral with the chemical composition sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Upon searching the Internet for the chemical formula, one of the researchers found that this is virtually the same composition as Kryptonite. I…have nothing more to say about this.Link

In December 1900, the Ladies Home Journal published a list of predictions for the year 2000. Some of them are pretty accurate, some, uh, less so. It’s interesting to reflect that when these predictions were made, the Wright Brothers’ first flight was still three years away, let alone all the other technological advances since then.…

One of the grotesques on DC’s Washington National Cathedral is Darth Vader. I’ll give you a moment to boggle before I continue. In the 1980s the Cathedral sponsored a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the facade. One of the winners was 13-year-old Christopher Rader, who submitted a drawing of “this futuristic representation…