-
BSG Propaganda Posters
Battlestar Galactica seems to be spawning an awful lot of posters. In addition to the “How to Spot a Cylon” PSA poster, Quantum Mechanix has also come up with these cute posters done in the style of WWII propaganda ads. Link (via Cynical-C)
-
The Mood Dress
In the “Scientific Advances We Didn’t Know We Wanted” department comes the Bubelle Dress, designed by Philips Electronics. It contains an inner layer of biometric sensors that detect a person’s emotions and project them as various colors onto the outer textile layer. It was developed as part of the SKIN Probe Project, researching what lifestyles…
-
That’s for Darn Sure
(via Greeblemonkey)
-
Russia Joins Europa Mission
Russia has joined a planned mission to search for life on Europa. The LaPlace mission is supposed to launch some time between 2015 and 2025. Link
-
The 10 Best SF Films Never Made
Here’s an interesting roundup of films that have either never made it onto the screen, or were botched so badly that they shouldn’t have made it. It’s hard to argue with most of these. Visions of awesomeness flashed through my head, a Blade Runner-ish Earth with sprawling, filthy buildings, huge, flashing billboards with giant Asian…
-
Bed Time Lord
Ten-year-old George Baker is a huge Dr. Who fan. His parents, whom the word “indulgent” does not seem adequate to describe, made over his bedroom into a replica of the TARDIS control room. This is just a hunch, but I have a feeling that George may eventually have trouble getting a date. Link (via SciFi…
-
Robinson on “Comparative Planetology”
Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting, are all about climate change radically altering the Earth. The architecture blog BLDG BLOG has an interview with him which discusses his rather literal world-building: One thing about Mars is that it’s a radically impoverished landscape. You start…
-
New SF Novelist Blog
SF Novelists is the group blog of several SF and Fantasy novelists–there are currently 65 of them listed–whose goal is “to share our love of genre and spread the word via this website and other venues.” The site also aggregates posts from many of the authors’ personal blogs, turning it into a sort of author…
-
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
Get ready! “Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day” is last month. Walk up to random people and say “WHAT YEAR IS THIS?” and when they tell you, get quiet and then say “Then there’s still time!” and run off. Link (via Neatorama)
-
First-Ever Quantum Calculation
Researchers at the University of Queensland have made the very first execution of a quantum calculation. By manipulating entangled photons, they calculated the prime factors of the number 15. In addition to being a major step towards building the first quantum computers, this breakthrough is of interest because it could potentially be used to break…