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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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Ads in Spaaaace
This is just silly. JP Aerospace is currently lining up customers for their next flight in April. Your advertisement will be carried aloft to 100,000 feet – and photographed against the boundary between the Earth and outer space. So you can pay an aerospace concern to fly a small advertisement midway up into the stratosphere…
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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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TARDIS-Shaped USB Hub
This four-port USB hub is shaped like Dr. Who’s TARDIS. The blue light on top flashes and the hub makes the “vworp vworp” dematerializing sound whenever you connect or disconnect a device. Link (via Gizmodo)
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Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions
Technovelgy has a neat list of the first appearance in print of many SF inventions (ansibles, waldoes, and over 1,100 others).Link
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Joke
function Cthulhu() { print “Gadzooks! Tentacles!”; return 1; } $eldritch = Cthulhu(); // the call of Cthulhu (This suddenly occurred to me after an overlong coding run. I cracked myself up. It’s time to seek professional help.)
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Oh No I Am Not Either
Which Science Fiction Writer Are You?This quiz, which is clearly broken, thinks I’m William Gibson.Who are you?
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Interview with Buzz Aldrin
The Table of Malcontents blog has posted an interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin about his new documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon. He also talks a bit about Mars colonization, and the genre of science fiction. Me: You’ve written science fiction books. Are you fan of the genre? Aldrin: I read a lot of…
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Overlooked Books of 2006
Locus Online has a list of “overlooked” science fiction from 2006.Link
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Ian McDonald’s River of Gods Now in U.S. Edition
McDonald’s “bollypunk” River of Gods, which impressed the heck out of Shadow, has finally got a U.S. edition, published by Pyr Books (Shadow had to get his from Amazon U.K.). Since I haven’t yet managed to convince Shadow to do guest reviews on this blog, you can read Cory Doctorow’s review of it here.Link (via…