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The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company
Are you an invisible superhero worried about your deodorant showing? Have you recently acquired super powers and find yourself in need of a lair and a secret identity? The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company has you covered. They offer everything from detailed maps of the Negative Zone to cyborg parts and accessories. Their selection of capes…
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The Waterpod Has Launched
Photographer and sculptor Mary Mattingly works with extending the concept of personal spaces, such as the “wearable homes” she designed to function in a variety of environmental conditions. Now she’s created the Waterpod, a barge with a living area constructed out of repurposed wood and metal. She and three other artists will live in this…
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This Made Me Giggle
I have a bunch of Twitter feeds in my RSS aggregator, including the ones belonging to Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton. This recent set of tweets amused me immoderately (click to embiggen):
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Follow That Author
Quite a number of SF authors blog and/or use Twitter, so in case you’d like to follow some of your favorites here are a bunch of author blogs and Twitter feeds. (Lots more authors have a Web presence of some sort; this list only includes those with actual blogs.) Dan Abnett Blog Twitter Daniel Abraham…
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Woo-Hoo Cthulhu
In my online wanderings, I’ve run into a number of Lovecraft-inspired games. If you’ve got a soft spot for shoggoths, here’s a roundup: The Commonplace Book Project is devoted to creating interactive adventures based on the unfinished story ideas that H.P. Lovecraft collected in his “Commonplace Book”. They’re free for download in exchange for user…
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Meet the Seamstress
The new movie 9 (produced by Tim Burton, which should come as no surprise given that image there) involves a ragdoll who comes to life in a post-apocalyptic world where maniacal machines have killed off all of the humans. 9 finds a small community of others like him and tries to understand what’s happened to…
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The Best Part of Free Enterprise
I didn’t realize this was online until io9 mentioned it. The whole movie is a hoot, but this is my favorite part.
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Link Dump
“Extreme” Animal Embryos – Neat photos of unusual embryos from National Geographic. Super – Ian Pool captures superheroes in their off hours (Wonder Woman is borderline NSFW). The Star Trek Failure Generator – The argine phase-conjugate graviton is collapsing! Two from Geeks Are Sexy: Geeky Tattoos and Geeky License Plates Marriage in Zero Gravity –…
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The Astounding World of the Future
Gosh, this mid-20th-Century newsreel certainly was accurate about life in the year 2000. (via The Presurfer)
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Exactly.
Wondermark has summarized the current state of the movie industry with uncanny accuracy. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 (Be sure to mouse over each strip for Easter Egg text.)