Crocheted Dalek Doom!
Crochet your own dalek with amdown’s pattern–or planetjune’s modifications–force humans to hollow out the earth so you can drive it around the universe. Daleks conquer and destroy!
Presidential Futurism
Slate surveys African-American presidents in tv and film–with clips! Salon looks at “Black Presidents We Have Known,” looking at DW Griffith, the year 2228, Sammy Davis, Jr. and 24 along the way. Meanwhile, Io9 urges you to choose Nixon as your dystopian president. (updated!)
Scientists and TV
What’s going on with science in TV shows? Cocktail Party Physics takes a look, and The Mentalist comes out the clear favourite.
Detroit Metal City: No Music, No Dream
We live in a time of film adaptations of comic books massive and tiny, from Iron Man and The Dark Knight to Wanted and The Surrogates. But I don’t need to see any more. I have seen Detroit Metal City and it is a testament to awesomeness. […]
Fu Manchu, Mr. Moto and Firefly
Lisa Katayama at MangoBot: “Yellow peril science fiction was never large enough to be a genre in and of itself, but I decided it was worth traveling back in time to revisit the trend in its historical context.” (thanks, Chuck!)
7) Everyone has cancer.
“16) If you have a nosebleed, you most definitely have cancer. And you have no money to pay for the surgery that will save your life. And your liver is missing. We’re not sure where it went, but it’s making your cancer progress faster.” Everything Mark Russell needs […]
The Cultural Gutter 