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Looking for a Few Good Blogs
It’s high time the O*W*C beefed up the ol’ blogroll. Got recommendations for SF-related blogs we should be showcasing? Leave us a comment and let us know! Also, there is a metric ton of SF authors’ blogs out there. Should we try to blogroll some percentage of those, or should we concentrate on SF news-type…
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Time “Lord”
In a strange life-imitates-art twist, a priest in Cardiff is doing a Dr. Who theme night to appeal to a younger audience. He’s quoted as saying, “We will be looking at the idea of Jesus as a Lord of time and showing who Jesus was and the different images of him throughout time.” There are…
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Smile
On September 19, 1982, at 11:44 a.m., the first emoticon was posted to the Internet. The :) is 25 years old today. Link
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Celebrity Star Wars
Worth 1000 is a site where Photoshop jockeys vie to create the best image on a given theme. The thing that always blows me away about this particular site is the professionalism of the entries; they’re just seamless. Anyway, this contest theme is pretty self-explanatory. Fun! Link (via The Presurfer)
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Brass Goggles: “The Lighter Side of Steampunk”
This neat blog tracks all manner of steampunkery, from interesting e-Bay finds to book reviews. I have kind of a soft spot for the genre, even though I’m not a big fan of its cyberpunk progenitor, just because the artifacts it inspires are so pretty. (Part of this, I’m sure, is because it’s retroactively claimed…
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Robert Jordan, RIP
First L’Engle, then Jordan … who’s going to be the 3rd? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6999578.stm
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Oh, Gah.
There’s a TRON remake in the works. It’s being developed by Joseph Kosinski, the guy who signed on to remake Logan’s Run. There’s…nothing left to say. SF Signal has more.
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Gorey Does “Star Trek”
Shaenon Garrity read an article about Edward Gorey’s fondness for Star Trek, and has done a most wonderful interpretation of “The Trouble With Tribbles” in the Gorey style. She has so far not followed up on her implied threat to do a Gorey interpretation of “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.” :::whew::: Link (via SF Signal)
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Google Sponsors Moon Landing
As I said in a previous post, if I had to put money on who’d be running things in 20 years, it’d be Google. Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images…
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Well, Is He?
News of the Weird reported this bit about an article in the Wall Street Journal (08/10/07): Ric Hoogestraat is married to Sue and works at a call center in the Phoenix area but spends 30-plus hours a week inside the online Second Life video game, pretending that he is the digitally drawn Dutch Hoorenbeek, a…