7 month ago
Linkorama : Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
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7 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Ignite ETech 2008: Matt Webb - Matt's fun five minute whizz around fictional versions of the solar system. Wish I'd been in San Diego and Austin this past week.
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Xanthmaker - Piers Anthony Interview - Jitterbug Fantasia - at the web archive (you have to select the text to read it)
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11 month ago
deusx : Sense of wonder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "It is occasionally referred to as "sensawunda" by fans and readers of the genre"
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21 month ago
deusx : The Last Question by Issac Asimov - "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
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21 month ago
plasticbag : I'm watching Contact on television again and finding it again troubling in terms of its depiction of the tensions between reason and faith - Now I read the book probably twenty years ago now, and I don't remember it in enormous detail, but it seems to me that the film makes the tension between science and faith the core of its narrative, much more so than the book.
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plasticbag : The t-shirt every self-respecting nerd should be wearing this autumn - And if you're not obsessed with Battlestar Galactica then you're barely worth talking to.
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plasticbag : Salon gushes over Serenity, only pausing to lament that the only thing better than it would be to have Firefly back... - "Joss Whedon's unfairly canceled TV series "Firefly" comes to the big screen -- and marvelously. But for all its wit, it's just not the same."
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang - Webb sent this to me a while ago - it's a short novel about the experience of becoming more intelligent and the consequences of it as well. Mostly when people write about being more intelligent than they are, it sucks. This does not suck.
philgyford : Understand - a novelette by Ted Chiang - Webb recommended this to Coates and it sounds interesting but I hate reading on the screen so maybe I'll never get round to reading it even so. (via Plasticbag)
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28 month ago
jkottke : Interesting tour/visualization imagining 10 dimensions - Interesting tour/visualization imagining 10 dimensions.
plasticbag : Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Flash walkthrough of some of the concepts in the book by Rob Bryanton - It's pretty extraordinary stuff and sort of makes sense. I think I'll watch it through a couple of times more later this evening
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Webb's done a pretty brain-melting presentation at Goldsmiths on fictional futures, design and sci-fi - Wait until you get to the illustrations of super powers he'd like to have (which would be better phrased as way-out body mods). The third is extraordinary...
Milo Vermeulen : 50-page slideshow by Matt Webb on fictional futures, design and sci-fi - awesome 50-page slideshow by Matt Webb on fictional futures, design, sci-fi and all sorts of things [via]
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30 month ago
plasticbag : SteamPunk Transformers are rocking my world right about now - I'm a trivial man, but still the image of Megatron built out of a huge cannon is pretty damn cool and makes way more sense than that stupid miniature gun that he used to turn into...
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34 month ago
plasticbag : The Scotsman reports that the US Government are exploring an area of physics that could result in practical faster than light travel... - There's remarkably little about this news story on Google News or elsewhere, and I have to say that I'm not sure I trust The Scotsman as a source for science stories. But still, it's a fascinating story...
deusx : Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip - "AN EXTRAORDINARY "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government."
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36 month ago
plasticbag : "A 'sexy, funny' spin-off from the Doctor Who television series, is to be made by BBC Wales and set in Cardiff." - Featuring Captain Jack from the series, I can't help but hope that this paranoid thriller isn't as lame as it quite possibly could be. Would be good to get some adult sci-fi on the BBC though...
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37 month ago
plasticbag : "Sci-fi film Serenity has ended Pride and Prejudice's four-week reign at the top of the UK film chart." - "Serenity, created by Buffy the Vampire Slayer mastermind Joss Whedon, took almost £960,000 in its first weekend."
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Joss Whedon's Serenity hits #118 on the IMDB all time best movies - Whether this high opinion will last is unclear. Currently, however, it's beating Return of the Jedi, is the eighteenth best movie of the 00's, and the 38th best fillm ever as voted by women (but not by men)
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Salon gushes over Serenity, only pausing to lament that the only thing better than it would be to have Firefly back... - "Joss Whedon's unfairly canceled TV series "Firefly" comes to the big screen -- and marvelously. But for all its wit, it's just not the same."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Serenity's a Smarter Space Opera - For a sci-fi movie, Serenity doesn't showcase much fancy science. In this space adventure, the most impressive technologies are a broken-down starship and a couple of standard-issue holograms. Even the weapons are old-school -- the ship's captain slings h
plasticbag : Wired News' take on Joss Whedon's Serenity - Yet another pretty glowing review. It notes some of the script's shortcomings and structural problems, but still comes to the conclusion that you really shouldn't miss it. How many people have to tell you this before you'll believe me?
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41 month ago
plasticbag : The Futurama Taglines Flash Slideshow includes every tagline from every episode in seasons one to four... - You can't really go far wrong with Futurama. Except the taglines. Which were rarely funny. Better here than on TV.
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41 month ago
plasticbag : "Joss Whedon is my master now" - Where can I get one of these T-shirts? - I just want to restate that Firefly was awesome and that Serenity will rock and that I'm not a huge nerd...
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Quite cute this - a seven year old who has seen all the Star Wars prequels watches the original for the first time - "Why are red leader and gold leader the leaders? They don't know what they're doing..." Ah so wise, and so young...
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45 month ago
plasticbag : Star Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled. Ah well... Lost is better anyway... - "The creators, stars and crew of Star Trek: Enterprise ambitiously and proudly upheld the fine traditions of the Star Trek franchise. We are grateful for their contributions to the legacy of Trek..."
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plasticbag : Star Wars craft made out of Lego - God I would have killed for that Millennium Falcon when I was a kid. I'd watch TV shows with cars and space-ships in them and immediately go home and make them in Lego
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