(from Savage Chickens) Also, this one, and this one, and this one, and aw, hell, just go visit the site.

In the Coffee-Out-the-Nose Department comes this gem from Darth Mojo. So one day, we were all standing around the Digital Beta machine, fast forwarding through Star Trek: The Motion Picture, looking for effects shots to take notes. When we got to the V’ger sequence, it was especially noticeable on fast-search just how many shots there…

Comedy musician/Filker Tom Smith has taken the traditional song I Had a Cat… and done something dark and horrible with it. His version is quite wonderful, with in-jokey references to horror and SF movies, and the music is infectious; Shadowboy has begged me to play this over and over and over and over…. You can…

Just a reminder to our gentle readers who may not check the rest of this site: The O*W*C has a regular feature entitled Caption This!. A screen grab from a science fiction movie is posted each month, and our readers are invited to write their own captions, which are immortalized in our Caption Gallery. Think…

Responding to a thread regarding the suitability of video games for children, Metafilter user Aeschenkarnos posted a good review of the massively multiplayer game “Outside.” In terms of the traditional target age content metrics, Outside is remarkably high in sex, violence and challenges to traditional values, despite the strong child-focussed marketing it receives. Many would…

The Onion has a chilling cautionary tale.

Science Junkies suggests that gene splicing might be fraught with peril. DNA Combination: Chicken + Cockroach + Giant Squid Intended Result: A quickly reproducing completely boneless chicken yielding six to ten tasty “drumettes” (boneless drum sticks) Unfortunate Outcome: A quickly reproducing flightless, 8 beaked cephalopod with a bullet resistant exoskeleton :::giggle::: Link

The Pharyngula blog has a rather marvelous post up. Link (You may need to scroll down; the formatting is out of whack.)

 Vrooommm … (from  http://thecontaminated.com/  )

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