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| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:12 AM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- BBC Worldwide and PBS' Masterpiece Theatre will co-produce a new TV series called Sherlock which will feature a 21st century spin on the famous detective, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson. (Via)
- Fascinating story about a temple discovered in Turkey that rewrites what we know about the history of humanity. It's 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. The archaeologist in charge of the dig thinks it's proof that religion came first, then civilization. Also fascinating: a scientist discovered the site years ago, but walked away from it when he simply couldn't fit it into his view of the world. Cognitive dissonance to the extreme! (Via)
- Incredible papercraft recreation of Howl's Moving Castle. Oddly similar: a gigantic walking city made out of LEGO.
- Nic Cage as the Norwegian curling team. Have I mentioned that I'm obsessed with curling now? Because I'm obsessed with curling now.
- io9 lists 18 upcoming TV shows that could save small-screen sci-fi. I hope they're right, because all the good TV shows seem to be going away. Anyway, a lot of these sound neat.
- io9 gives a good review to the new DC animated movie, Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths. Looking forward to it!
- Mark Strong is officially Sinestro.
- They're making Missile Command into a 3D action/adventure film. Will it end the way the game always did: with a huge explosion and the words "THE END?"
- One of my favorite entries on Covered in a while.
- Potato chips with real bacon! I'd buy that for a dollar!
- John Carpenter returned to directing after a ten year absence to make The Ward, a horror flick about a bunch of young women disappearing one by one in an insane asylum. Sounds pretty cliche, but maybe it'll have something new going on that's not obvious from a plot summary.
- Yet more fun toys from the Toy Fair, including Bubo and Lord of the Rings bobbleheads (seriously - a Sauron bobblehead), and a Klingon disruptor.
- A used car (and droid) dealership. (Via)
- Hilarious Mola Ram valentine.
- Here's an amusing online app which you can use to make it look like you're updating your Facebook status via various outrageous methods, including mental telepathy, toilet, and your mom. (Via)
- Dude figured out how to control a whole band's worth of percussion instruments using a couple of Wii Remotes. Pretty amazing stuff.
- Ian McShane as Blackbeard? YES. I would totally watch the next Pirates movie if they do this.
- B-Side is a company that helps run film festivals, providing various handy online scheduling gadgets. I kind of liked some of the stuff they had to offer when I used it during the Philadelphia Film Festival. Sadly, B-Side is now no more.
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| Tuesday, December 15, 2009 09:49 AM |
| (Last updated on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:19 AM) | | Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Videos keep going up and down this morning! But for now, at least, please enjoy the trailer for Robin Hood above (via). This is the upcoming film from Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. It looks pretty awesome. Check out some stills from the movie here. Damn, Blanchett looks good.
- A lot of stories are coming out about how Avatar ripped off this and Avatar ripped off that. I don't really care that much about any of them. I mean, what didn't rip off something? But I do enjoy this gallery of art by Roger Dean, even if it is presented in the same context.
- Cool sculptures, including one of Santa Cthulhu and Mrs. Cthulhu, and one of Odin's ravens.
- IMPORTANT INFORMATION: scientific determination of how long Luke would likely be able to survive the freezing temperatures of Hoth while stuffed into the guts of a dead Tauntaun. (Via)
- Custom-made portable Dreamcast.
- Photographic evidence of a previously unknown ancient civilization being unearthed in the area of the Amazon. (Via)
- Still loving these LEGO CubeDudes.
- Google and Facebook are jumping into the URL-shortening biz.
- A list of all the Golden Globe nominees. I've only seen one of the Best Motion Picture nominees (The Hurt Locker), although that one was very good. Here's my review.
- There was a bit of an uproar a while back when the title of Kevin Smith's upcoming cop movie changed from the rather amusing A Couple of Dicks to the bland and lame A Couple of Cops. Seemingly in response to the uproar, the title was quickly changed back. Now it looks like they're changing it again - to Cop Out. It seems an unfortunately appropriate change this time.
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| Tuesday, December 1, 2009 08:50 AM |
| (Last updated on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:14 AM) | | Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
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| Monday, September 21, 2009 11:02 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Not only did NPH host last night's Emmy's, he also broke into the broadcast as Dr. Horrible! See the video above.
- Another awesome entry from Animals With Lightsabers.
- Great Carrie poster.
- Looks like the designer 3D glasses that Jeffrey Katzenberg promised would be coming our way are indeed in the works.
- The way to really impress everyone on a classy night out: put on your Super Mario evening wear! (Via)
- Star Wars reviewed by a three-year-old. Extremely cute and funny, and surprisingly accurate!
- In an interview with People, Kermit the frog insists he is not in a relationship with Lady Gaga, despite having been seen kissing her at the MTV VMAs. (Via)
- Details about an upcoming remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
- A burglar stopped to check Facebook on his victim's computer, but forgot to log out. He might as well have left his name, address, and phone number with the police.
- Video of a pretty hilarious Half-Life 2 mod, wherein all the sound effects have been replaced by voice imitations.
- Some fun sketches Dave Perillo did at Pittsburgh Comicon.
- Pretty funny: stormtroopers discuss the terrorist attack on the Death Star while on break at a bar.
- "An autonomous fighter jet called a Reaper was shot down over Northern Afghanistan last weekend after it went AWOL and attempted to fly outside Afghan airspace." Umm... that's disturbing. Are you sure that thing wasn't made by Cyberdyne Systems? And isn't it maybe called a Hunter-Killer and not a Reaper?
- Doctor Doom tries a new career path: infomercial host.
- io9's 10 favorite moments of space madness from throughout science fiction, and io9's 7 favorite sci-fi bars.
- A collection of portraits of famous science fiction authors.
- A couple more positive reviews of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I'm going to have to check this movie out.
- Disney is doing a computer-animated Rapunzel.
- Marc Toberoff, the lawyer who successfully sued DC Comics and Warner Brothers on behalf of Superman creator Jerry Siegel, has now brought a suit against Marvel and Disney on behalf of the estate of Jack Kirby. The estate is looking to regain its share of copyright in the characters Kirby created, and their use in comics and other media. On the one hand, I'd like to see Kirby get his due. But on the other hand, I'd also like to see more Marvel comics and movies about Kirby's characters! I hope a settlement can be reached quickly.
- A fun video collecting allusions to Tron from throughout popular culture.
- Okay, I've got to stop posting these soon, I know, but... here are a few more amusing sci-fi-related Kanye interruptions.
- A sequel to Street Fighter IV is on the way.
- Not only is table-flipping now a standard element of reality shows, it's also the central mechanic of a new Japanese arcade game.
- Toy Story ray gun controller!
- Creepy and cool Halloween food creations.
- A group of MIT students managed to Rickroll the entire campus. They added the first seven notes of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" to the campus' iconic Great Dome. (Via)
- The characters of Masters of the Universe go clubbing. (Via)
- Famous folks wearing the three wolf moon T-shirt!
- Cute Marvel merchandise.
- A Prius with 8-bit flames on the side.
- I can say from personal experience with my Dad's awesome Kitt-like new car that electric vehicles are remarkably silent. Too silent, some say. So Nissan consulted some music composers to add a custom engine sound to their electric cars, and they came up with a high-pitched sound reminiscent of the flying cars in Blade Runner. Awesome! (Via)
- Tim Burton interviews Ray Harryhausen.
- Video of a Left 4 Dead mod in which you must kill zombie Teletubbies. Hilarious and terrifying!
- Cinematical got its hands on some shots from the sets of The A-Team (it's the van!) and The Karate Kid.
- A rather interesting trailer for what looks like a pretty creepy and bloody film called Valhalla Rising. (Via)
- Heh. Gay scientists isolate Christian gene.
- In this goofy web comic, Jules Verne writes Edgar Allan Poe a fan letter. (Via)
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