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Indexed: Hilarious and Geeky Diagram Blog
This marvy little blog features funny and thoughtful musings on life through the medium of graphs and diagrams written on index cards. I especially like these:NourishingLife Sure Does Come At You FastScary Stories:::giggle:::(via Wil Wheaton)
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Textbook Disclaimer Stickers
These printable stickers are great for quietly slipping into textbooks, or just print the whole lot out and use it as a poster. This book was anonymously donated to your school library to discreetly promote religious alternatives to the theory of evolution. When you are finished with it, please refile the book in the fiction…
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The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches
This is a fairly big list, but it looks like the guy is still taking submissions. I’m sure this group could think of a few more…. 9. A virtual reality program is activated, and the distinction between reality and the program becomes confused or indistinguishable. 10. People connect their brains directly to computers and get…
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The Last Good Morning
Okay, the only thing this has to do with science fiction is that I followed a link from Wil Wheaton’s blog to John Scalzi’s blog and this was linked in the comments, but it’s twisted and I like it.Breakfast of the Gods
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Time Travelers: Lay Off Grandpas
Lore Sjöberg’s Alt Text column this week involves his chronic problem with time travelers from the future trying to kill him. An excellent article, full of tips on solving this common problem. I’ve tried to get the time assassins to give me a clearer picture than that, but I haven’t been able to for a…
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Yep.
The Problem with Linux, in a Nutshell(via Wil Wheaton)
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Monty Python/SFTV Mashups
More evidence that there’s a strong correlation between science fiction fandom and Monty Python appreciation. Here are clips from Dr. Who and Star Trek, set to Monty Python dialogue.Dr. WhoStar Trek 1Star Trek 2(via BoingBoing)
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Comedy SF Mashup Contest
Playing off his suggestion for A Canticle for Lebowski (Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley), Campbell Award-winning author Jay Lake is asking his blog readers to come up with similar science fiction/comedy mashups. Me, Myself, and I Robot. A man discovers he has two personalities, one…
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And all I got was this silly T-shirt …
From NewScientist.com . . . The winning entries in the New Year Competition. The challenge was to compose a text message of no more than 160 characters, sent home by an alien who has just arrived on our planet. Here, then, in no particular order, are the 10 winners, as chosen by a ballot among…
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Lame Holiday Crap of the Future
Annalee Newitz, a “surly media nerd who will be celebrating the holidays by eating your brain,” has come up with some rather wonderful predictions for future bad holiday gifts. Peer-to-peer brain distribution client: Everybody is uploading and downloading their brains via the Internet. It’s certainly the best way to travel — just upload your brain…