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01.19.2005
New Scientist article on rejected chemical weapons inlcuding plans to develop an "aphrodisiac" bomb which would "make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other."
via scuffletown
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12.07.2004
NY Times article about China trying to “serve notice” to the Pixars and Disneys of the world with its burgeoning animation field. Forthcoming will be a full-length feature written by Moebius (Jean Giraud), who created the forerunner of Heavy Metal magazine.
via cartoonbrew
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11.22.2004
Psychology experiment shows Superman on the brain foments downturn in community service, ostensibly due to the hero's unmatchable abilities.
via boing-boing
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11.03.2004
Shhh! Peek into the less-than-cleverly-hidden DVD Drive-In Reviews for great info of all sorts of cinematic trash from long-gone days.
via retrofuture
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09.30.2004
Man Conquers Space is being filmed as an "alternative-timeline documentary" based on a popular series of Collier's articles from the 50s romanticizing the future of space exploration that never was.
It sounds almost as wacky as CQ, which features a film within a film containing a documentary about Barbarella.
via scuffletown
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01.26.2004
Aerogel is a space-age polymer with unbelievable thermoinsulation possibilties: an aerogel house (cost prohibitive) could be heated with a candle flame, but eventually would become too hot!
via scuffletown
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09.17.2003
Broken memories "attacks" the phenomena of erotic fan-fiction, fan-art, and broadcasting general fan-lust for characters of children's cartoons, movies and other media.
Seems to work almost as effectively as a "call for submissions."
via memepool
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08.13.2003
The Astounding B-Monster has tons of sci-fi, cult, horror, exploitation and other b-movie info in bite-size features. Includes interviews, profiles, history, essays and more.
via retrolounge
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08.06.2003
Teleport-city is a webzine devoted to b-movies and soundtracks.
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07.07.2003
Someone so obsessed with the Space: 1999 TV show that they redecorated their flat in the style of Moonbase Alpha.
via retrofuture
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03.21.2003
"The Questor Tapes" was a never-produced TV series written by Gene Roddenberry about human androids secretly inserted in earth society by an alien race.
via retrofuture
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03.21.2003
Someone has seen TRON way too many times, but I thank him for it.
via mister pants
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03.21.2003
Pavlov's Dog is to "stimulus/response" as Kevin Bacon is to "three degrees of separation."
By the way, the average Bacon number in this database has been calculated to 2.914.
via metafilter
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03.18.2003
Hip Bone is a web-based incarnation of Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game.
via microsound
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03.18.2003
The Vedic tradition's account of Vimanas are perhaps the earliest written description of spaceships/flying machines.
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03.18.2003
Invisible library:
"The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound."
via retrofuture
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03.18.2003
Microscopic views of rust.
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03.17.2003
An introduction to steampunk, a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction featuring outlandish technology set in Victorian society.
For some "classic" steampunk, check out these Victorian robots.
via metafilter
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03.16.2003
Kazak cops say: Hobbit bad.
!!no corresponding supplier
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03.16.2003
This isn't the original Powers of Ten produced by Eames for IBM, but it's the same enlightening concept.
via microsound
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03.16.2003
One of the strangest children's TV shows of all time, vegetable soup featured psychedelic cartoons which practically gave me motion sickness and the bizarre "Outerscope II," an existentialist puppet-drama about kids lost in space via a vessel they built out of junk.
via retrofuture
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03.16.2003
I guess TV Go Home is sort of like an Onion for a British TV Guide... I find these Holidays in Britain and Beyond ads especially cheeky.
via mister pants
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02.26.2003
Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's UFO TV series.
The show had fantastic futuristic sets and costumes for both men and women, but was a little thin with the plot and acting.
via scrubbles
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