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RIP Charles Brown
Locus is reporting that its publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown has passed away. Link (via Scalzi)
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society did a musical version of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” This makes me terribly happy. (Cross-posted at The Art of Darkness)
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Superheroes: The Later Years
Artist Donald Soffritti has put together a large gallery of superheroes and -villains as they’ll look when they’re elderly. I think this and the Invisible Woman are my two favorites. Link (via Cognitive Dissident)
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Nexterlizer
Ever feel overwhelmed with the choice of what to read, watch, or listen to next? James at Big Dumb Object felt that the resources available to help you make a decision were too cumbersome: To help you there are a myriad of web sites: catalogue everything you’ve ever read, make friends and let them make…
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“Nautilus” Home Theatre
Somewhere deep in the heart of the Nautilus I’m sure there was a room like this where Captain Nemo could kick back with some popcorn. Maker Olly Klassen built this gorgeous home cinema in amazingly faithful detail, including gauges on the riveted walls and a beautiful iris in front of the screen. His site includes…
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The Cantina Song on…Everything
BoingBoing recently posted a clip of the Cantina Band song from Star Wars being played on a Chapman stick. I recalled a previous post about the same song being played on a ukulele, and knowing the deep impression the song has made on the collective geek psyche, I wondered what other versions might be out…
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Follow Us on Twitter
The O*W*C has done what all the cool kids are doing and added a Twitter feed. Check it out for reminders about nightly chats, alerts when the blog is updated, and whatever else enters our fool heads: http://twitter.com/OtherWorldsCafe
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Link Dump
Time Travel Cheat Sheet – Hang this up in your time machine. Hunch – Helps you make decisions by harnessing the collective knowledge of Hunch users. This is either a glimpse at the future of the noosphere or the worst idea I’ve ever heard. Religion of Comic Book Characters – Superman’s a Methodist. Who knew?…
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Pop Culture Taxonomy
There was quite a flutter in the geek community a while back when cartoonist Gary Larson got his own species–the Strigiphilus garylarsoni owl louse was named in his honor–not to mention the joy at Thagomizer being adopted as an anatomical term for Stegosaur tail spikes. It turns out that there are quite a lot of…
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Steampunk Giveaway
Destructoid recently released its new shooter Damnation, and to help promote it they commissioned steampunk wiz Jake of All Trades to create two amazingly large and detailed steampunk computer mods. To enter the competition to win one of these lovely ‘puters you have to either a post a picture of yourself in your best steampunk…