Well, after decades of using my own homebrew archive system, I’ve decided to return to the deliciously decadent world of WordPress. I hope you find it easier to navigate and use, because it combines all the post-post-modern styling of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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LHCWatch: Countdown to the strangelet apocalypse
Discover has a good liveblog-style entry about booting the Large Hadron Collider back up. As you may recall the LHC had a run-in with Deep Time a couple months back, and more recently was taken out by a bird with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know if William Shatner would ever have made it into Star Trek from this last year, but it’s neat to see the scene that was written for him. I’m so impressed with the writing! I can really hear […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bear with me, guys, I’m still sorting out getting comics into the RSS feed like they used to be. They’re not going away. Thanks!
The Royal Society has posted a slideshow of some of its fine science over the years (and years and years), including keeping a dog alive for a few more hours by inflating its lungs with bellows to simulate breathing in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Star Pirates is launching a Starslip contest! Are you familiar with Star Pirates, friend? It’s an in-browser space MMO you can play anywhere for free. See, you’re a star pirate where you can eke out a living mining the asteroids, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This MSN portal has an image of the new suits that they’ll be wearing in the Tron sequel (is it Tron or TRON?). I like it! You put a blue glowing stripe down a black catsuit and you’ll have yourself […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&q=sci-fi&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10 Is this old news? While looking for sci-fi news to talk about here, I searched for “sci-fi” at Google and got the above. It’s search results, except there’s a little live Twitter ticker that refreshes all mentions of sci-fi […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This video takes such a simple idea and presents it so wonderfully. Imagine how different mankind would be if its cultures developed under Saturnian rings. Of course, Vanderbeam let slip that Saturn’s rings somehow blew in half sometime in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because it blew me away to draw it. Discuss in the comments here, or in the forums. (Today’s cliffhanger is brought to you by Star Pirates.)