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Celebrity Star Wars Toys
Topless Robot has an amusing gallery of Star Wars action figures that unintentionally look like celebrities. (Click on each thumbnail to get a better view of the toys’ faces.) Link (via BoingBoing)
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SF Movies as Russian Woodcuts
Artist Andrey Kuznetsov has created a series of Russian folk-art woodcuts based on classic SF movies. (Also possibly some fantasy; I didn’t recognize the inspiration for some of the vignettes.) The site is entirely in Cyrillic, but there are thumbnails. They’re really quite wonderful. (Note: Some rotating ads on this site may be NSFW.) Link…
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This is Completely Awesome
This short video shows some really amazing behaviors of cephalopods and other sea life. It’s shocking how much we don’t know about our own back yard. (Hat tip to Professor Fate)
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2007 Nebula Award Final Ballot
Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announces the final Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2007. The ballot will be mailed on March 1st, and Active Members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America must return them by March 31. The Awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at…
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We Have the Tools…We Have the Technology…
…what we don’t have is the money. Wired has an article entitled, straightforwardly, “10 Sci-Fi Techs We Could Build If They Weren’t So Damn Expensive.” Android Armies Cost: $1bn a battallion Seen Asimo? If you want your own, expect to pay Honda about a million dollars. Cheapskates can lease one for $166,000 a year. And…
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Free Download of Old Man’s War
Tor Books is getting ready to launch an “SF super-site,” and is making John Scalzi’s “I’m going to Out-Heinlein Heinlein” novel available for download as a free e-book. There will be other free books available as well; to get the Scalzi book and be notified when others are available, you have to sign up for…
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How many people do we know like this?
I scared the cat I laughed so hard … From http://xkcd.com/386/
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Time After Time Musical in the Works
Playwright and musical lyricist Stephen Cole wanted to stage a musical version of The Time Machine, but “Eventually I realized a musical with Morlocks would be a surefire flop.” I really can’t agree with that. I think a musical with Morlocks would be awesome. Anyway, he became interested in the 1979 Malcolm McDowell film and…
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RIBBET
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of a frog that lived about 70 million years ago and, according to the rather breathless news article, “was so nasty it may have eaten newborn dinosaurs.” Either this report was released by the Institute for Well, Duh or the journalist was having a little trouble trying to make…
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Indiana Jones Trailers
Even though they’re technically playing coy, there are a lot of hints that Indiana Jones’ next adventure will involve an encounter with aliens. (See io9 for a major hint–and semi-spoiler–in this direction.) Sounds enough like SF to be blogged about here. :) The Indiana Jones site has the first trailer (which includes a glimpse of…