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Simon Tam M.D.
io9 recently created a wonderful 80s-style Firefly intro, and fans complained that Sean Maher had been overlooked in the credits. io9 has followed up by explaining that Maher was left out of the credits because he left after season one to spin off his own show. I love this kind of recut footage.
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Trivia Thursday
Who wrote “The Jewels of Aptor,” but is better known for novels like Nova? Which author devised the Three Laws of Robotics? In what film does H. G.Wells pursue Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco? The cheela inhabit the surface of what object in Robert Forward’s Dragon’s Egg? What was ALF’s real name…
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Fifty Years of Space Exploration
This extremely cool infographic is part of one of National Geographic’s Map of the Day, where it’s zoomable and scrollable. It’s also been liberated from its Flash-based bondage here. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
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The Weirdest Headline You’ll See All Day
Micky Dolenz joins Debbie Gibson-Tiffany pic This was sent to me by the intrepid DaleB, and involves SyFy’s casting choices for their upcoming movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, and you could not make this stuff up. DaleB continued: We have come far from that first night the Sci Fi Channel broadcast War of the Worlds.…
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Earth is “Much Younger” Than Previously Thought
For values of “much younger” that are probably only meaningful to geologists. New research suggests that previous estimates of the time needed for Earth to accrete may have been too short. It had been thought that the process would have taken about 30 million years, but an analysis of isotopes from meteorites seems to indicate…
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Star Wars Subway Car
I really heart Improv Everywhere. Read about the full “mission” here.
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Trivia Thursday
One of the best-loved items of SF terminology, this item is the antigravity device used to drive flying cities through the Galaxy in James Blish’s series collected as Cities In Flight, though he was using the term as early as 1950. Name it! How long did it take to catch the killer in Marooned In…
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Scenes from a Multiverse
Jonathan Rosenberg (the creator of Goats) has started a new strip entitled Scenes from a Multiverse which visits various locations “somewhere in an ordinary, everyday multiverse.” It’s odd and off-kilter and amusing, and there’s even an audience participation feature: Readers can vote on which location should be revisited in each Friday’s strip. (via The Slumbering…
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Link Dump
Clone Trooper Cupcakes – Tutorial for making the most adorable little troopers imaginable. Super-Summer Vacations – From Latveria to Krypton, visit comics’ greatest tourist traps. How to Fight a Fake-Looking Monster – Giggle. (See the follow-up cartoon here.) Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot – This is the best letter from a CEO in…
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The SFF Masterworks Meme
The SF and Fantasy Masterworks Reading Project is a group blog “dedicated to reading and reviewing Gollancz’s series of genre classics in its entirety.” The site has inspired a few people to list the SF books in the series that they’ve read (in bold) and/or own (in italics). Play along! It’s fun! The original list…