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The Faking Hoaxer
YouTube member TheFakingHoaxer specializes in realistic-looking hoax videos of events like the space shuttle encountering UFOs or ghost sightings in the woods. You can see the whole collection of videos on his YouTube channel. (via BoingBoing)
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This is Oddly Soothing
The original. (via I Have Seen the Whole of the Internet)
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Seen Online
Yes, I read Quantum Physics. But only for the particles. — JerryThomas You all said I was crazy to save all these soy sauce packets. How’s your post-apocalyptic squirrel? Oh, what’s that? NEEDS A LITTLE SALT? — dysolution My daughter asked me how long it would take to walk around the moon. Totally absurd. Absurd…
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The Face Behind the Mask
The ChicagoNow A&E blog has a slideshow of movie aliens along with the actors who played them. It’s a bit heavy on Avatar characters, and I kind of question the inclusion of E.T. (since an actor only “played” the alien in a couple of scenes when it had to scurry across the floor), but it’s…
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Mind the Gap
Samuel Arbesman was recently re-reading Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, in which Sagan alludes to “some sort of cosmic Grand Central Station.” That inspired him to create the Milky Way Transit Authority map, laying out the arms of our galaxy in the format of a transit map. It’s just lovely, and so elegant in its simplicity.…
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Everything Old is New Again
It’s this kind of news that makes me believe a Quark reboot is only a matter of time. Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod has struck a deal with Imagine Television to develop a series based on The Questor Tapes. “The Questor Tapes” was originally conceived as a television series pilot about an android with incomplete memory…
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My Neighbor Robocop
Lore Sjöberg (of Slumbering Lungfish and Brunching Shuttlecocks fame) recently saw My Neighbor Totoro for the first time and claims that the movie put this in his head. I don’t necessarily want to explore the thought process that led from one to the other, but I have to admit that I’m terribly fond of this…
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A Scene I’d Like to See
(From xkcd, natch)
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The SF-Reading Toolkit
BoingBoing pointed to this essay by Jo Walton, discussing the mindset required to read and enjoy science fiction. She talks about the necessity of knowing what it’s acceptable to skim, such as not needing to know how a tachyon drive works, just that its ability to move you faster than light is important to the…