Cool: September 2008 Archives
The genius comic that is xkcd has a wonderful height chart, starting from small, to galactic distances. Very witty. And you can buy it as a poster, it's 28 double apostrophes tall. Cooool.
Here's a site of Haiku film reviews, plenty of which are SF e.g.
JUMPER :)
Does teleporting
cause limbs to atrophy? No!
It makes you quite buff.
This made me laugh, Danny O'Brien on SF in SF
The stories they read were great: during his tale, Mamatas shifted slowly in my mind into the very slightly new category of that guy who wrote the Cthulhu mythos story in the style of Raymond Carver. And after [David] Levine's reading, I have him mentally categorised now as "The Ted Chiang of Toontown".
Danny is one of the founders of the legendary NTK, and also accidentally invented the entire Lifehack industry, but bizarrely I remember him as the guy who wrote that cool Sunday Times column.
I'm loving the concept art from The Force Unleashed videogame.
Darth Vader slaughtering Wookies? Check.
Glowing things! Including Space and Rockets.
Geek Dad, at Wired, has 10 Geeky Movies To Raise Your Kids On and my general reaction is YES!
It seems that Geek Dad has the same taste as me.
- Star Wars - YES!
- Harry Potter And The Philospher's Stone - Hmmm
- The Last Starfighter - YES! (I so wanted to play that game)
- My Neighbor Totoro - Never heard of it, but it's Miyazaki
- Time Bandits - YES!
- The Dark Crystal - maybe, it's muppets
- WarGames - YES! YES!
- Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang - YES! The scary child catcher will be good for them.
- Goonies - YES!
- Back To The Future - YES! YES!
It seems that Geek Dad has the same taste as me.
