I Can See Forever
It’s like the 1980s are a black hole and the event horizon reaches forever: The A-Team, The Karate Kid, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tron, Ghostbusters, Conan The Barbarian, Red Dawn, Short Circuit and Wall Street.
Pretty Puppet Poe
Lo tech makes hi tech better! Puppets illustrate this ebook version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. (Also, check out the link to Two-Fisted Poe).
Anti-Kindle
“Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens“? C’mon, Stross, tell us what you really think of the Kindle!
No Fatties, No Hamsters, No Crazies
Back off bitches, Fred the Viking is mine. Love and 1980s technology combine for a new world of romance in this collage of dating videos. (Thanks, Jen!).
WWII Reaches Aldebaran
Strange Maps charts tv signals as they reach Alpha Centauri, Chi Draconis, Arcturus and Aldebaran. See the map here.
Kirk in Black and White, Kirk in Color
Fren Attic writes of growing up in a family of Scottish “proto-Trekkies”: “[T]he image that burned itself on to our retinas was the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. …Only this time they were devoid of their dull, grey uniforms. Kirk was yellow, Spock blue, Scotty a shocking red. […]
The Cultural Gutter 