A couple of guys with a lot of time and a seeming inexhaustible supply of Star Trek: The Next Generation footage have put together some highly entertaining mash-ups. They’re all pretty good, but this one is the best: Awesome. Via BWE.
Still under the weather, folks. But I try. Lord, how I try. World If you like recreations of WWII battles (and I do), the Pennsylvannia is ground zero this weekend. Science & Tech 1.5-million-year-old human footprints have been found. Turns out he was a size 9. Pop Culture Wanna own the first Superman comic? Bring [...]
Sorry about the lack o’ blogging, folks. I have ye olde norovirus, and it’s making it hard to type. But, here’s a (shorter) linker. Because I love you that much. Science & Tech Ever wonder what would happen if a nuke hit your city? Wonder no more. Fossilized fish prove sex is a lot older [...]
Canada Are you an officer at CFB Shiloh? You might be eating off the table where General James Wolfe died. Queen’s University is (finally) naming a building after Robert Sutherland, the first black man to graduate from a Canadian university. And, he totally bailed Queen’s out, too. World A topless coffee bar just opened in [...]
One of the more ubiquitous artifacts of the Internet age is Fanboy Rage. We’ve all seen it. Packs of half-crazed Star Wars or Star Trek or [insert beloved SF franchise, fantasy series, or gadget brand here] fans swarming over forums and blogs to register their boundless outrage over the defilement of whatever it is they [...]
Canada The Atheist Bus campaign has finally reached Toronto. Former Price is Right host Bob Barker is all up in the Edmonton Zoo’s grill. World The Norwegian Navy is joining the hunt for explorer Roald Amundsen’s airplane…the one he went missing in in 1928. NASA suffered a satellite fail this morning. The Uber-Bigots at the [...]
Hollywood is out of ideas. It’s been said so much over the past decade, it’s almost axiomatic. But you know the creativity bank is really low when people start talking about taking an idea that has already been re-booted and devolving it to its earlier, lamer form. I like the new Battlestar Galactica TV series. [...]