This certainly explains the “deja vu is a glitch in the Matrix” idea. Link (hat tip to Herding Kittens)

This will be particularly amusing to those of us who have ever run a D&D campaign. I think that somehedgehog’s reimagining of the presidential hopefuls as RPG players has captured everybody’s personalities pretty neatly. OBAMA: Well, maybe some people got tired of the grim and squinty “Matterhorn, son of Marathon” shtick you keep doing. Dude,…

What is it about Star Trek that makes it so ripe for parody? YouTube user Huckbone mated the original series with The A Team to produce this: And then followed it up with a Love Boat/TNG remix: This makes me awfully happy.

It’s the ELO soundtrack that really makes this. (via SF Signal)

io9 has figured out why Sarah Palin wasn’t a perfect replacement for Hillary Clinton in the minds of voters: Hillary is Star Trek and Sarah is Star Wars. Sarah Palin is Yoda, Hillary Clinton is Deanna Troi Sarah is full of wise sayings, even if they often don’t make sense and lack a certain amount…

(via Movin’ Meat)

This image made its first appearance about a day after the Republican VP choice was announced. It apparently resonated, since somebody has already registered tighroslin.com They look like us and they sound like us. So how can you know? I’m a sure thing. I’m Saul Tigh, and you frakking-well better believe I approved this message.…

We all know they’re coming. What do we do when they get here? Step 4: Killing an Alien Just so everyone’s clear, your pissy ‘human’ weapons will have no effect whatsoever on an honest-to-goodness alien. You’re only likely to get them all riled and angsty, which means double the probing for you. So don’t go…

The winner of the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, Tom Weller’s Science Made Stupid: How to Discomprehend the World Around Us is a parody of high school science textbooks. The book itself is out of print, but an abridged version (endorsed by the author) is online. What is Science? Put most simply, science…

Author Jim C. Hines has written lyrics to the perennially-parodied Gilbert and Sullivan song “Modern Major General.” I am the very model of a modern SF novelist, I’ve manuscripts space opera, anime, and fantasist, I know the kings of fandom and the best flamewars historical From Andrew Burt to LiveJournal, in order categorical; I’m very…