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New Enterprise Will Look Like Old Enterprise

Fanwankers, unclench: The Enterprise won’t look much different in the new Star Trek movie, except for a “grittier metal texture.” And J.J. Abrams has been shooting desert scenes that could be the birth of Spock. [IESB] Sean Connery’s son will direct an action-thriller about an elite army team who must rescue a scientist from the…

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Once More, With Horniness

The Southland Tales soundtrack includes Sarah Michelle Gellar singing “Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.” I’m going to have this song stuck in my head for weeks. MP3 is here. [Slashfilm]

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Tomorrowland Sucks

Disneyland promises visitors through its gates four separate worlds that are supposed to thrill and delight you: Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland. While the other lands deliver on that promise, Tomorrowland seems like it got stuck in Yesterdayland. Once a portal to the future, the amusement park has now been surpassed in coolness by several…

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Pereira’s Conquest Of Planet Earth

This is what people thought the future would look like, back in the 1960s. The architecture of William Pereira was inspired by science fiction, and inspired more science fiction in turn. This building, the Geisel Library, stars in Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End. Vinge writes that the Library looks “like something brought down from outer space.”…

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Don’t Go Crazy With the Future

It probably shouldn’t be too surprising that market-loving magazine The Economist has an article this week about how futurists shouldn’t try to make long-term predictions. After all, short term thinking is what’s best for making a quick buck. Futurist Jamais Cascio gives The Economist a beat-down, explaining why it’s crucial to think long-term, even if…

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Green Hornet Wasn’t Always a Paunchy Jewish Canadian

Everybody’s buzzing about how Seth Rogen is attached to play superhero Green Hornet in the movie adaptation he’s also writing. That means most people will think of the Green Hornet as a paunchy, Jewish hero if this thing actually gets made. Since most audiences today aren’t familiar with The Green Hornet, we’ve put a shorthand…

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Fake Flowers Will Drain Poison From Wild Mosquitoes

A company called Provector is going to seed the wilds with fake flowers that cure mosquito disease. Each flower is packed with technology that delivers pathogen-killing drugs to the unwary insects, who will be lured to them and then cleansed of diseases like dengue fever and malaria. Hooray for artificial nature. [Scientific American]

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Welcome to the O.Z., Bitches

Tin Man, The SciFi Channel’s reimagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz begins airing on Sunday night as a three-night miniseries. It’s a complete refab of the entire book as you know it, set in the O.Z., or Outer Zone. The 13-year-old kid in us loved the complete reworking of something that has quite frankly…

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Electric Cabinets Of The Unexpected

You can see — and manipulate — the retro-futurist art of Kenn Coplan tonight. Coplan builds weird wooden machines that include exposed gears and Tesla-esque electronics. You’re encouraged to push the buttons and pull the knobs, to make surprising things leap out of the carnival-esque machines. Many of his devices have a twisted sense of…

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One-Eyed Samuel L. Jackson Smokes Cigars In Iron Man

t looks like Nick Fury will be making a cameo appearance in next summer’s Iron Man flick. He just wrapped a small scene on the movie, and if you’ve seen Nick Fury in The Ultimates, then you know he’s drawn as Sam Jackson, so we can’t imagine him playing any other role.

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Nevermind the Nerdcore It’s Scifi Music

Sure the nerdcore craze is totally hip, with guys like MC Frontalot and MC Hawking drawing in crowds of dozens with their geeksta raps about particle physics. But they’re just selling out the real scifi music underground, which includes hidden classics like the Portal Song, above, written by Popular Science magazine’s resident composer and included…

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NBC Hooks Up With Netflix to Deliver More TV on Your PC

NBC has become quite the digital distribution whore, like they broke up with their longtime lover and are slutting it up to make them jealous or something. Their latest partner is Netflix.com, where subscribers can watch Heroes eps the day after they air—the release curiously avoids the word “stream”—as well as past eps of 30…

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Welcome to the First World Clone Summit

Neasden Control Centre, a London artist project that quickly became a cult favorite after doing funky commercial prints for hot shot clients like MTV and Esquire in the early 2000s, has a cool new book out. It’s called Lost Control, and it features 192 pages of full-color art, mostly original, 99% hand-drawn, depicting a range…

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Ryan Philippe’s Atheist Superhero Fights Psycho Cults

Ryan Phillippe wears a supernatural-looking mask in Franklyn, a British film coming out next year. He plays the only atheist in a city full of religious fanatics. Writer/director Gerald McMorrow spilled the beans yesterday about the film’s weird set-up. Philippe plays a detective named Jonathan Preest who lives in a dystopian alternate world called Meanwhile…

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The View of Space They Didn’t Want You to See

We’re sick of those fake airbrushed artist’s interpretations of Venusian lightning. Instead, io9 is bringing you RAW UNEDITED pix from space! This photo, issued yesterday by the European Southern Observatory, shows what it was like for young galaxies in the early universe. Over at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Charlie Petit complains that news about…

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Lady Antelopes Kill for Sex

Science isn’t all about sex, pollution, cutting up brains, and going to outer space, but given today’s headlines we can just pretend that it is. Turns out the time-honored “dudes fighting over a lady” thing isn’t really that common outside the human world. If you look at how most species behave in nature, often the…

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Bionic Baddie Vs. The Blogger

Just over a week ago at a Battlestar Galactica fan convention in Burbank, Katee “Starbuck” Sackhoff did a little over-sharing. According to LiveJournal user Roadrunner, she fired a few salvos at Bionic Woman, saying she wouldn’t be back on the show even if it returned post-strike. Then she dissed the show and its low ratings…

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Spa with Sis or Save the World from Nuke-Nutty North Korea?

Speculation runs rampant that tonight’s episode, the last in the can before the writer’s strike, will also be the last ever for the troubled Bionic Woman. As the show opens, Jaime and the Berkut gang are down at the corner tavern holding an old-fashioned wake for Antonio. “I slept with him once. It was amazing,”…

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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Space Opera

What do Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Star Wars, the anime Robotech, and the novels of Iain M. Banks all have in common? They’re space operas, part of the scifi subgenre that goes back to the 1930s and includes practically any cool outer-space story with lots of awesome ships and intergalactic battles. Now critics (and a new…

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Desperate ABC Takes ‘Lost’ To The Silver Screen

ABC will be airing promos for Lost in theaters this December in front of all PG-rated and above rated movies. The promos will feature unseen footage from the upcoming fourth season of the show, and will add more ass-numbing commercials to sit through while you wait for the feature to begin.

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New Enterprise Will Look Like Old Enterprise

Once More, With Horniness

Tomorrowland Sucks

Pereira’s Conquest Of Planet Earth

Don’t Go Crazy With the Future

Green Hornet Wasn’t Always a Paunchy Jewish Canadian

Fake Flowers Will Drain Poison From Wild Mosquitoes

Welcome to the O.Z., Bitches

Electric Cabinets Of The Unexpected

One-Eyed Samuel L. Jackson Smokes Cigars In Iron Man

Nevermind the Nerdcore It’s Scifi Music

NBC Hooks Up With Netflix to Deliver More TV on Your PC

Welcome to the First World Clone Summit

Ryan Philippe’s Atheist Superhero Fights Psycho Cults

The View of Space They Didn’t Want You to See

Lady Antelopes Kill for Sex

Bionic Baddie Vs. The Blogger

Spa with Sis or Save the World from Nuke-Nutty North Korea?

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Space Opera

Desperate ABC Takes ‘Lost’ To The Silver Screen

Apple MagSafe Duo Charger Gets 42% Off, Finally Worth It for iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch Users

Oscar Isaac Did ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ to Work With Top Tier Actors—Instead, He Got a Cooling Tent

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AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund

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