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Comic Strip Mashups
Ryan Dunlavey did a series of comic strip/SFF mashups for Wizard and ToyFare Magazine, creating such wonderful combinations as “Phantom the Menace,” “Orlando Bloom County,” and “Kraven and Hobbes.” I especially like Dr. Doom and his “Psychiatric Help” stand. Link (Hat tip to RaptorLA)
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Happy Halloween!
(From Para Abnormal)
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NASA iPhone App
NASA has released an app for the iPhone that aggregates dynamically updated information, images and video links. Screens include Missions (details about all current missions), Images (gallery options for the NASA Image of the Day and the Astronomy Picture of the Day), Videos (NASA’s YouTube channel), and Updates (aggregate of NASA’s Twitter feeds). The screens…
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This is Inspiring
Badasses: A Portrait (Click to enlarge) By artist seangordonmurphy, who clearly understands the Badass Nature. (via Topless Robot)
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Darwin: The Musical
Composer and Songwriter David Haines loves science so much that he’s created a musical called Tremendous Journey to celebrate it. The concert will feature 15 songs about the science of life and evolution. It’s a shorter version of my “science oratorio”, Lifetime. We open with a song called Mr Darwin, which tells the story of…
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No Really, the World isn’t Ending
One of the many detrimental effects of poor science education is that people are far more susceptible to woo. This is being exhibited particularly strongly right now with the ZOMG2012 meme, wherein an uncomfortably large number of people are convinced that some moldy Babylonian god a hitherto-undetected planet that the Mayans knew about is going…
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Seen Online
Now that Disney has bought Marvel, I can’t wait for She-Hulk to be the new Disney Princess — Sargent I bought a carton of oat milk just to support the kind of person who can find udders on an oat. — warrenellis Robot Celebrity Impersonator: “I AM JACK NICHOLSON. HERE IS JOHNNY. THAT IS ALSO…
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SuvwI’pu’ qan tu’lu’be’
Periodically one runs across something on the Internet which makes one go, “…qua?” Klenginem is one of those things. Growing up on the Klingon starbase Morska, it was no problem for Klenginem – whose real name is Quvar muHwI’ valer – to receive the most different kinds of communication waves, among which also the terran…
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You Got Your Zombies in My Star Wars!
Zombies and Star Wars. They’re two great…oh, who am I kidding? This is just ridiculous. (Click the image to enlarge for full zombie Wookiee goodness.) Death Troopers follows the adventures of a handful of survivors on an Imperial prison barge after everybody else contracts an horrific disease, dies, and comes back to life (boogedy-boogedy)! Del…
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Whoa Spacetime is All Like Trippy Dude
(From Abstruse Goose – Post title cribbed from the filename)