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Leia’s Metal Bikini
This site is exhaustively and entirely devoted to just exactly what you’d think it is. It goes without saying that there are more photos than you can shake a bantha at, along with a fan art gallery. If some of the images were NSFW, I would not be particularly surprised. There are links to tutorials…
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Securing the Geek Vote
Explanation of this vision here. (via Dave Lowe)
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It’s September…
…so it’s time for my annual Worldcon/Hugo rant. I believe that the time has come for us to consider, like it or not, the need for changing the name of the World Science Fiction Convention to something like the World Speculative Fiction Convention, the World Convention for Fantastic Literature, the (to paraphrase Locus’ cover) World…
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Seen Online
Counting sheep doesn’t help you fall sleep if you re-cast “Predator” in your mind with an all-sheep cast. “Baa! Get to da choppa! Baa!” — sween RT @mking260978@BrentSpiner Doing anymore sci-fi in the future?–That’s redundant. — BrentSpiner Does every last one of them need to be an homage to Zork? And if so, where are…
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SF Road Trip
SciFi Wire has put together a guide to 68 “must see” SF-related sites around the US, from the Kennedy Space Center to Donnie Darko’s house. (via Cynical-C)
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SF Novel Crossword
UserFriendly has a geek crossword featuring clues like “tree shape in microgravity” and “Senior King on Majipoor.” Link
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Author Interviews at Writing Raw
Writing Raw is a free literary e-zine, and they’ve just posted a new batch of “7-Question Interviews” with authors, including David Drake and Tad Williams. They’ve also got archived interviews with Jasper Fforde, Nancy Kress, L.E. Modesitt, and quite a lot of others. The site itself, although suffering from 1999 Navigation Syndrome, appears to be…
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Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists
Improbable Research, home of the Ig Nobel Prize, is also the home of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. To be a member, you have to be a scientist and have (or believe you have) luxuriant flowing hair. Catherine Asaro (physicist and Nebula Award winner) and Brian May (astronomer and rock star) are both…
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Music of the Sphere
The irregular surface of the Moon is somewhat similar to the ridges on a vinyl record. If you squint. Therefore it stands to reason(?) that you could “play” it. There’s a new program called Moonbell which does just that. It lets you use topographical data to determine how musical pitch rises and falls, and can…
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TMBG Science
They Might Be Giants, whose lyrics often reference science, have just released a new album for kids entitled Here Comes Science. You can preview the song “Science is Real” at Amazon*, and the music video for “I am a Paleontologist” is below: The album is also available on iTunes. (via Charlie’s Playhouse) *If you want…