Caine’s Arcade

One boy in East Los Angeles used his imagination to make his own fun arcade…and everyone came to enjoy it. If this doesn’t move you, you’re broken.

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Quantum Levitation

This blew my mind a little. Once again, science fiction becomes science fact. This is only the first step, of course, but it’s amazing to see.

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William Shatner doing Thomas Dolby…with Trent Reznor?

It’s been going around the InterBlogs for a while now that William Shatner is working on a heavy metal cover album with some very established classic rock and metal musicians. This is destined to be a quirky classic of the …

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal spoofs the anti-gays

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For those of you who don’t know, there’s a rather amusing webcomic named Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Yesterday’s comic was making fun of how fast technology moves by suggesting in the future, all children will be gestated artificially, not naturally. …

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Tron Legacy: The Dude enters the grid

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On this dark and stormy Monday night, The Nerdette and I braved the 405 South to journey to the largest, oldest IMAX 3D screen around in order to see TRON: Legacy as it was meant to be seen. We had …

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Inspirational musings from Silent Bob

Yesterday, film-maker/podcaster/comic writer/all-around-potty-mouth Kevin Smith wrote some “SMonologues” on his twitter feed—complete essays, written 140 characters at a time, spanning pages and pages of tweets. Thankfully, he recently put them up on his longform blog (sorry, but in my opinion …

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Homemade Star Trek sliding doors!

Not for the faint of heart, but if you like projects, like Star Trek, and own your own property, this fellow who blogs at uiproductions.blogspot.com has built his own air-powered star-trek style sliding doors! The blogger gives directions and how-to …

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Science fiction becomes reality: CERN produces anti-matter

We all know that one of the most powerful releases of energy occurs when anti-matter and matter annihilate each other. That’s what powers Federation starships like the USS-Enterprise, for God’s sake! Well, it seems that we’ve taken one huge step …

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Retro Star Wars Travel Posters!

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Steve Thomas does a lot of retro and propaganda style posters. His travel posters cover planets, science fiction, and fantasy themes, and are a heaping plate of awesome, slathered in awesome sauce. He has a selection of eight Star Wars …

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Marvel’s Avengers…in 1500AD

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Black Panther author Francesco Francavilla in the Comic Twart blog as part of his Marvel “What If” covers week, drew a cover of The Avengers superhero team—in the year 1500!  In his own words: So I give you, for the first …

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