There’s something reminiscent of an alien landscape in the towering silver whorls of architect Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project in Seattle. And, really, who doesn’t see spaceships when looking at I.M. Pei’s Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?
What [...]
After watching Macrumors live stream here are some of the things I find exciting about the future of the new OSX and Apple’s new hardware coming out.
* Apple has made deals with EA and ID software to port more games over to the Mac.
* A brand new GUI for OS 10.5
* Better networking
* The first [...]
Beginning August 4, 2007 (Saturday, 10PM ET/PT) and running for four straight weeks on the ABC Television Network, the same producers behind the Showtime runner “Masters of Horror” will bring “Masters of Science Fiction” to the small screen.
Each hour-long story will come from such well known SF writers as Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury or Robert [...]
In recent postings concerning the LiveJounral fiasco I made constant comments concerning the idea of a free and strong Internet. There are two sides to the argument; of course; but I can only see it one way. The way some see it, the internet is like anything else and should be censored with rules by [...]
Zachary Quinto, who plays the menacing Sylar in NBC’s hit series “Heroes” could be in the running to play one of the icons of science-fiction television and movies–Mr. Spock.
Since the news that J.J. Abrams was helming a revival of the “Star Trek” film franchise that would recast the original crew, Quinto says there has been [...]
GlobalNerdy has published a great table comparing the recent “cyber-attacks” on Estonia with the first fictional account of cyberwar, from William Gibson’s brilliant 1984 debut Neuromancer, the book that gave us the term “cyberspace.” Science fiction writers predict the present, not the future. Gibson’s forthcoming next book, a mind-blower called Spook Country is a [...]
A Marvel Comics hero is giving George Washington some company on the quarter, but the U.S. Mint doesn’t think the stunt is so super.
To promote the upcoming film “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” 20th Century Fox and The Franklin Mint altered 40,000 U.S. quarters to feature the character.
The U.S. Mint said in a [...]
Customs officers at Cairo’s airport have detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said.
The officers were stunned when a passenger, identified as Yahia Rahim Tulba, told them his carryon bag contained live snakes after he was asked to open it.
Tulba opened his [...]
From the entry way at Zune headquarters, we bring you today’s Flickr Find: the iPod Amnesty Bin. Yeah sure, it’s probably “art” more than it’s a real “amnesty bin”–but it says something that upon seeing this picture my heart skipped a beat. It’s like seeing adorable puppies in a pound. I instinctively wanted to grab [...]
Developer’s Conference has announced that this September, straight after the Austin Game Conference, they’ll be holding a PC-only show called PC Game On. The idea is to take PC gaming and give it its own show, away from those filthy, limelight-hogging little consoles. Katherine Schoback, of GDC parent company CMP Technology:
PC Game On celebrates PC [...]