Out There: July 2004 Archives

The Disembodied Brain has a photo gallery from Comic-Con 2004.

Lots of pictures of people dressed up as weird stuff.

The schedule of Comic-Con has been released. [Via Disembodied Brain]. It looks very, very cool. Wish I was going. Anyone going to blog it?
A couple of the things I'd love to see : Star Wars Spectacular with Lucasfilm’s Steve Sansweet and guests (of course), Joss Whedon talking about Serenity (and showing previews?) and Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean talking about the MirrorMask movie.

All over the web is the news that Chris de Burgh has bought Alien 'icon'. The BBC say "He paid just under £29,875", so the bidding went to £1 increases? CdB (as I shall now call him said "I bought it because I believed it was a defining moment in cinema history for its sheer horror." and left unsaid that he also bought it because he is very rich and can just do things like that. Wouldn't that be nice, to be able to bid for your favourite movie props. I'll have.....let me think.....ermmm......oooh! I'll have Darth Vader's helmet.

The Orac3 is an incredibly complex custom computer, named in tribute to the idiosyncratic Orac computer in Blake's 7, a cheapo British sci-fi TV show from the '80s.

[Via The Cult of Mac Blog] Cheap(ish), but classic. www.blakes7.com

Looking slightly better than the version I used to play on my BBC Micro, here's GLtron a version of the Light cycles arena from Tron.

Another one to file under "I would go if I wasn't 6000 miles away", Robinson will speak to The Bee Book Club at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 15, at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, Sacramento. [Via The Sacremento Bee]
I had a quick look for a list of KSR's schedule but couldn't find anything. Anyone know if he as a tour schedule somewhere?

A few days ago I laughed at The Arizona Republics article on WesterCon57. I've just found some more stuff about the con, the website is here, Dragon Page are broadcasting live from it and the programme listing looks amazingly diverse. Sessions that I would fancy going to if I wasn't 4000 miles away include....

• Coyote and Roadrunner, The physics of the Chuck Jones universe
• Southwestern Cats: The Eating of Geckos (?!)
• Future Weapon Systems in SF Stories - Fantasy vs. Reality
• Farscape: Frel No, We Won’t Go!
• Beyond X-Prize