The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of
Oh Waily Waily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Courtesy of a friend, (thanks Marc), I have this link to share with you. It sends you to another set of amazing cakes, this time with a theme. They are steampunk inspired. Oh, and this blog aptly called Cake Wrecks also provides a bit of a culinary laugh at the expense of cake decorators. If you’ve ever had [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
newVideoPlayer("/gaysananatomytrap.flv", 500, 375,""); This week, Supernatural took us into the dark heart of darkest evil. The brothers are trapped . . . in an episode of Gray's Anatomy! And a bad... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive smog bank smothering huge portions of China today. This blanket of pollution has been hovering over the country for over a week now, exacerbated... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Walk into the ICA this weekend and you won't find the usual contemporary art installations. For the next three weeks it's all about art with a cool comic-book twist. At the sixth Comica festival, the annual London gathering of some of the biggest international comic and graphic novel writers and artists around, hip twentysomethings will be watching their heroes drawing a collaborative comic strip...
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, has manufactured another dream of paranoid moral confusion with his latest film The Box. An uneasy tale of alien technology and human greed, The Box is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Director Roland Emmerich knows how to blow humanity to smithereens. He did it in Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow and now 2012. We talked to the apocalypse-master himself, who explained that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
How exclusivity built a community at the FT’s finance blog, which gets 500k monthly uniques http://tr.im/EkF2 » The new newsroom: Great slideshow of Gawker Media’s “steampunk” offices http://tr.im/EkLb (HT @carr2n) » The new Chicago News Co-Op needs much more funding to cover costs. Editor paying himself $0 in first year http://tr.im/EkU3 » In Twitter lists,...
io9 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Coolhunter Cayce Pollard, from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, is the strangest kind of fashion icon, writes Kat at NoGoodForMe.com: invisible, allergic to brands, impenetrable. "She stands for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
HarperCollins' new science-fiction imprint, Angry Robot, is invading the United States at last, starting in May — and instead of ramping up slowly, it's hitting us with six titles per month.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Men Who Stare At Goats is about warrior-monks with psychic powers, who call themselves Jedis over and over again. But the movie's structure also echoes the original Star Wars trilogy, and it's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Imagine a place filled with giant robot pizza boys, cardboard time machines, hideously mutated crime-fighting mole rats, and apocalyptic destruction. That place is the Perry Bible Fellowship, and now... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
All I can say is that io9ers know how to make great costumes, and they know how to party. This is our final edition of the io9 Halloween Costume Show, and we've got some standouts. And this is just... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
If you're in the New York area, come out to meet your fellow io9 readers (and editors) on Thursday, the 12th, from 8-10 PM at The Magician bar. We couldn't have a meetup on Coruscant, so we'll settle... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With the World Series over, Fringe is finally back with a B-movie-inspired episode that plunges us into Russian fringe science, delves into Agent Broyles' past, turns people to ash, and has us... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
io9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
We spent ten precious minutes with V's Morena Baccarin, our favorite alien visitor — and she answered all our questions, as long as they painted her in a positive light. Of course, we had to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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