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Universe Sandbox
Videogame programmer Dan Dixon has created an interactive space simulator which lets you play dice with the universe. Even better, it’s free. Smash planets together, introduce rogue stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Fire a moon into a planet or destroy everything you’ve created with a super massive black hole. You…
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Job Opening at SF Museum
The Science Fiction Museum in Seattle has a job opening for an Experience and Education Coordinator. This position supports the Manager of Interpretation and Educator resources by coordinating the training and efforts of the part-time gallery guides and floor volunteers. The guides and volunteers will provide excellent museum experiences for guided group visits to the…
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If Star Wars was Real
You know those sites that occasionally make you go, “Wait…what?” Well, this is one of them. The premise is that many elements of Star Wars actually existed in real life and influenced the films, but George Lucas has engaged in a massive cover-up to make his movies seem more original and imaginative.* Anyway, the point…
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Disaster Averted
Here I’ve been griping about all of the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel SF/fantasy remakes coming down the pike (like, f’rinstance, Escape from New York and Red Sonja, oh my head), and it turns out that things could have been much, much worse. Cracked Magazine has a list of the worst movies that Hollywood almost made, including a remake…
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RIP Thomas M. Disch
Theresa Nielsen Hayden reports that author Thomas Disch committed suicide on July 4. How terribly sad. Link
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Win 100 SF/Horror DVDs
Electronic Arts is promoting the release of its new game Dead Space by giving away a collection of 100 science fiction and horror DVDs. The list of movies is fairly eclectic, although it appears to be weighted slightly toward dystopian futures and slasher flicks. To enter the sweepstakes, you need only sign up for their…
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Best Lightsaber Mashups
It’s apparently a not-uncommon pastime amongst geeks to superimpose lightsabers on movie swordfights. Videogum has collected ten of the best and presents them for your delectation. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Teach the Controversy
Responding to the Discovery Institute’s intelligent design campaign Teach the Controversy, Wear Science has developed a line of T-shirts which invite Creationists to consider other “scientific controversies” that might be taught in school. I like the “Classic Periodic Table” shirt. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Probes on the Edge
Voyager 2 has now reached the edge of the solar system. This sounds like a good excuse for a party. Link
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Extremophiles
New Scientist has an interesting overview of life forms that exist in the most extreme environments on Earth (the article title says “in the universe,” but they apparently mean only the little corner of it we know about so far). I have a little trouble with the idea that the existence of an extremophile on…