Stephenson's Work On The Small Screen? Hooray! Diamond Age! Eh. George Clooney! …Wha?
Glenn Reynolds pointed out the following highly interesting story over at SciFi.com today:
Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in [...]
There's Regular Cool, And Then There's "Cylon Jack-O-Lantern" Cool
Okay, that's just way off the "Flippin' Sweet Meter". Learn how to make your own personal Autumnal Ode to a Toaster here, complete with working "eye scanner".
For Those Of You That Can't Wait Until October For New BSG Episodes
The SciFi channel has your back: new webisodes of Battlestar Galactica will be posted every Tuesday and Thursday between now and the debut of Season 3 in early October.
Woot!
News You Can Use: How To Totally Fake Being A Geek
Tired of feeling inferior to your geek bettersfriends, what with all their technical jargon and carrying on about obscure scientific and cultural phenomena? Then Penguin Pete's guide, How To Totally Fake Being A Geek, will be of immeasurable assistance in being able to "Run With the Geeks" without being intellectualy trampled, so to speak.
Heh.
Strangeness. Meter. Off The. Scale.
William Shatner, channeling Frank Sinatra in a tribute to George Lucas. It just don't get no stranger, folks.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Two quick video links:
The Evolution of Dance
What the Heck is an "Aluminum Falcon"?
Flippin' Sci-Fi Sweet!
Truly these are amazing times, when one can get virtual laser keyboards that project themselves onto flat surfaces for a mere $180!
That's awesome, if I may be so bold…
