On Christmas morning, everyone will get to see the first episode of Blamimations with Kris and Scott over at Penny Arcade. Sure, you can see episodes of their reality show right now. We know that. But will you see six […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sci-fi blog io9 has this wonderful article about the movie Avatar and how it relates to Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai and other movies where a white guy leaves his own oppressive people to join the nobel savage, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
T-minus 2. I also wanted to remind you about the Starslip contest going on at Star Pirates, the free-to-play sci-fi in-browser MMO! (I tried to get some hyphens into “MMO” but it didn’t work.) Log in and check it out!!
I’ll let this speak for itself. For irony, you can also check out the YouTube comments where everyone with a teleological axe to grind is arguing which culture invented numbers. Those kinds of problems disappear about three seconds into the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Merry Christmas! Our new series at Penny Arcade TV is up now!!
The USS Enterprise explores an oddly-demarcated region of fluidic space: It’s a radio-controlled sub! Found via Makezine.com (more in the link).
I can’t believe we made it to the year we make contact!
If you’re a long-time reader of this site, you know that 2001: A Space Odyssey had an enormous impact on me growing up. My dad bought it on Betamax and I would watch it out of the corner of my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Antikythera mechanism dates back to ancient Greece around 150 BC. It was discovered in 1901, but only recently have scientists been able to examine its guts. They say it predates similarly-complex clockwork machinery by about 1,500 years. This is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I promised myself I’d update the blog here with my thoughts on Star Trek Online. I’ve only played about 4 or 5 hours worth with Scott, and I can’t decide whether I love it because it’s a good game, or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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