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It’s an SF Christmas
Take a break from the holiday hubbub and enjoy these SF-related Christmas links: Miss Cellania’s SciFi Christmas – All kinds of, um, miscellania about everything from Star Trek-themed Christmas ornaments to Little Timmy Cthulhu’s Christmas Miracle. Pulp SF Magazine Christmas Covers – Lots of neat vintage covers with holiday themes. SF Holiday e-Cards – Cthreepo,…
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Happy Birthday Difference Engine
On December 23, 1834, Charles Babbage announced the invention of the Analytical Engine. According to London’s Science Museum: The designs for the Analytical Engine include almost all the essential logical features of a modern electronic digital computer. The engine was programmable using punched cards. It had a “store” where numbers and intermediate results could be…
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Link Dump
Time to clean up the ol’ Drafts folder. Most Annoying Post-Apocalypses – A list from Topless Robot. Squid Crafts – All kinds of patterns and instructions for making our favorite cephalopod. Best Skin-Melting Scenes in SF – Now here’s a rather creepily specific list, courtesy of io9. Alien Loves Predator – One of my favorite…
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Galileo…
Galileo, Galileo, Galilei – He did experiments with a force he couldn’t see. (Could not see, yeah.) He found that all things fall to earth at the very same speed. (Very same speed, yeah.) He didn’t know it yet, but that was due to gravity. —Schoolhouse Rock The Pope has marked the 400th anniversary of…
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But Mom, it’s a Documentary!
Tomorrow the History Channel will air a very special episode of “The Universe” exploring the subject of sex in space. As man moves to colonize the cosmos, the realities of sexual relationships and reproduction need to be addressed. Probe the physiological, psychological and cultural challenges of sex in space. From the sex act through birth,…
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R.I.P. Majel Barrett Roddenberry
She passed away of leukemia at age 76. Link
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Periodic Table of the Awesoments
Aristole postulated that all good things were made of “win.” That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental “awesoments” that compose all good things. Dapperstache has put together the periodic table of these awesoments; a great boon to…
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The Day The Earth Stood Still Reviews
The Crotchety Old Fan, who’s been vocal about his opposition to a remake of the classic in much the same way that Muntadhar al-Zeidi was vocal about his opposition to President Bush, bit the bullet and watched the remake. I believe it’s safe say that he was not impressed. The couple of examples above do…
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Silent Star Wars
This is surprisingly faithful to the medium. (via The Presurfer)
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I See What You’re Thinking
Researchers at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan have developed technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer. The scientists showed test subjects various images and used an MRI to map the changes in their cerebral blood flow. The images and resulting blood flow patterns were plugged…