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“Vintage” Future Ads Contest
Author Mark A. Rayner is running a repeat of his Vintage Ads of Fictional Futures contest, with a deadline of October 4. Here’s the concept: find a vintage ad, and then create a product from a created world — it can be from a book, movie, TV, etc. It doesn’t have to be science fiction;…
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Star Wars: Lego Chess Set
via Twitter/Scott Beale (@laughingsquid): Brandon Griffith created a wonderfully detailed “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back LEGO Chess” with a removable lid so that all the pieces can be stored inside the base of the chess set. It’s a follow up to his “A New Hope” LEGO chess set
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Cakes for Geeks
via Twitter: Yay! … unlazied? RT @GettingMauled: @mightymur ‘s birthday cake on cakewrecks! http://bit.ly/bDp0qi now I can say I unlazied! — so i clicked on the link (of course). i’ve been to Cake Wrecks before, but these were special! 7 cakes of geek inspired goodness, posted either because they were seen at DragonCon or reminded…
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Midichlorian Rhapsody
As with so many things involving the prequels, a fan-made recut is superior to the source material. (via The Daily What)
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Sci-Feye Test
The geeks at Bite have created the Sci-Fi Eye Test, using typography from 36 different movie, comic, and game logos. The first person to correctly guess them all wins a free poster of the chart (which are also available for sale). I recognize, like, three. (via Neatorama)
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Trivia Thursday
Who wrote A Martian Odyssey? Who were the Eddorians and Ploorans? What is the name of the last human city in The Matrix? The familiar theme from the movie 2001 is by what classical piece by Richard Strauss? Which was not amongst “The Powers of Matthew Star?”A) TelepathyB) Astral ProjectionC) LevitationD) TelekinesisE) Clairvoyance What was…
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15-Year-Old Wil Wheaton Might be a Deadbeat…
…but grown-up Wil Wheaton is awesome. Teresa Jusino of Pink Raygun recently wrote a humorous complaint about having sent off a subscription card for the Wil Wheaton fan club 21 years ago and never receiving a response. Wheaton heard of her plight and responded, and wound up sending her an official fan club package and…
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Geek Mom
Wired’s popular GeekDad blog has spawned GeekMom, a new site aimed at moms who are geeks and moms who are married to geeks. Ken Denmead announced the site’s launch on GeekDad: Ever since I took on the job of Editor at GeekDad, and would meet people at events like Maker Faire, the question I kept…
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Turbo-Cthulhu
Hee. (via Cynical-C)
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Seen Online
Waitress asked if I liked my grilled wookie baby. I told her it was a little Chewie. Thanks, I’ll be here on Hoth all week. Tip your droids. — luckyshirt No sir, I was NOT born yesterday. What kind of giant scary-ass newborns are you accustomed to seeing? — goldengateblond Beyond the Mountains of Madness…