Curiosities: What Got the Buzz A Webbing?!

I want this. A drug that gives you perfect visual memory. Either that or I need to wait 400 years and become an Envoy like Takeshi Kovacs...

USA Today says vampires need to get their stories straight, and I agree. I mean, now I have no idea if I need to take holy water or garlic out with me at night.

This article... is impossible to explain. Seems like one of C.S. Lewis' darker stories.

Honest to god alien in the sewers? This article gives an explanation, but I don't buy it!

Curiosities: Author Interviews

     The choice this weekend was between Up cartoon by Pixar or the horror flick called Drag Me to Hell. Drag Me to Hell won the draw and is, if you like horror movies, definitely worth seeing. While I recommend the flick, this post is about one of the adds that came before the movie. It was a short documentary by Honda about what the year 2088 will look like. Honda, being as ingenious as they are, wisely decided to interview some of the masters of predicting the future: science fiction authors!  

     Ben Bova and Orson Scott Card (one of OnlytheBestSciFi/Fantasy's voted top ten authors) had some pretty nifty things to say about the year 2088, and the short documentary is really well done, so if you have seven minutes, make sure to watch it. Also Included in the documentary were Scott Balton, a Lead Researcher over at NASA, and Darel Preble, from the ambitious Solar Space Institute. Enjoy!

Curiosities: Random Awesomeness

As per usual, a look at some interesting articles, pics, and curiosities that I stumbled across during the week. Make sure to check out the last one, I was really into it.

A great article featuring Vernor Vinge on the Singularity and why science fiction writers are becoming increasingly hesitant to predict the future. 

Just in case you wanted to fine tune the difference between Military Science Fiction adn Space Opera.

Now this is science, not fiction, at its best: a lockbox made of DNA! 

Couple of these out there, but I enjoyed this one. A look at the science in Star Trek. 

Science fiction and fantasy readings for socialists. A look at the top 50 must reads. Can you name ten before looking at the list?

Lastly, I leave you with some amazing, and I mean truly cool fantasy photo manipulations. Make sure to check these out you won't be sorry. I just with the new Wheel of Time book had something this good...

Curiosities: Harry Potter = Star Wars!?

Curiosities: Would You Like to Know More?

     Just a couple fun links that I came across in my bored curiosity internet hunts. If you know of any good ones, go ahead and share. 

• Ever read a science fiction novel and not understand exactly what the author meant by one of his terms? Check out the nerdiest dictionary of science fiction verbiage ever. Its gets real fun if you look in the "z" section.
  

• Ever wanted to know your name in elvish, then check out the elvish name generator.

• Stark Trek warp drive is indeed possible?! Physicists say that FTL travel is viable. 

• Five Terms that Science Fiction Coined. And they aren't the ones you thought. 

• Old Book Covers from Penguin gives you a great quick look at the past and how covers -- and ideas -- have changed.

• A pretty awesome pic. Not idea what its from, but if anyone knows, post it up. Seems familiar somehow.

• Do you scare easily during horror movies? Maybe this is why!