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Our Kind of Baby Shower
Sherri, a “food geek” with a “morbid sense of humor” was having a baby, so she designed her baby shower cake to feature the chestburster from Alien. Based on this sentence alone, I believe that Sherri is my new best friend. The monster was sculpted out of marzipan and garnished with blood-colored syrup. The cake…
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Scalzi-mania
On eBay: Item number:120222826271 John Scalzi: Zoe’s Tale — Special edition for charity! Ending Feb-25-08 09:10:29 PST Wish I was rich :-/
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Space Settlement Art
The National Space Society recently held an art contest for the NSS 2009 Space Settlement Calendar. They’ve just announced their winners and have posted a gallery of images. The one shown here is “After the Storm” by Raymond Cassel. It won grand prize, and it’s just wonderfully evocative. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Retrofuture Specimen Collection
Artist AlexCF describes himself as a “retrofuture cryptozoological assemblage artist and illustrator.” i like to create items and objects from a past that wasnt quite; to fashion the things you wish existed in forgotten attics or secret rooms, dust covered relics of a time when the world was the same – but not quite, an…
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The Capricorn Ticket
Feeling disillusioned by the political process? Ready for a real change? Then endorse the candidate who isn’t afraid to take risks and who responds to moral dilemmas by throwing people out the airlock. It’s the only sensible option. Vote Roslin/Airlock ’08. Link (via io9)
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Viva La Evolution
Today is Darwin Day! Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the day that Charles Darwin was born on in 1809. Specifically, it celebrates the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin — the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor. More…
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V Returns (Maybe)
Twenty-five years after the original V miniseries, creator Kenneth Johnson is continuing the story in a new novel and is also talking about doing a movie. IESB.net has a chatty interview with him about the new book and potential movie. Have you noticed that the movie industry is currently in the process of cannibalizing the…
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Princess Leia Statue…Thingie
This “animaquette” is produced by Gentle Giant, a purveyor of all kinds of weird fantasy tchotchkes. I don’t believe I can put it any more succinctly than Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog already has: For those of you who busy trying desperately to make sense of a world gone mad, allow me to confirm your mind-shattering suspicions:…
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Star Trek Movie Trailer
When, precisely, did Trek get all emo and cyberpunk? Link (via Closet Sci-Fi Geek)
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This Sounds Much Kinkier Than it Actually is
British scientists have created an embryo containing genetic material from two women and a man. They aren’t at the “designer baby” stage just yet, and are hastening to stress that the embryo doesn’t actually have three parents, but it’s still pretty cool. The procedure was done by placing a normal one-man-one-woman embryo into an egg…