Sci Fi Plans ‘Galactica’ Spinoff, Online Network - Yahoo! News
“Galactica” executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick are working on “Caprica,” which traces the evolution of the Cylon species featured in the mothership show.
They list The Handmaiden’s Tale as science fiction (and the only one on the list I’ve read), but I never thought of it as science fiction, just scary. *shrugs*
The 50 Worst Things To Happen To Music:
“Go peep this list. It’s Blender’s irreverent, funny-cause-it’s-true compendium of tragic mishaps in the evolution of pop music.’ Got any of your own?’ Post ‘em in the comments. (via LHB)
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(Via Village Indian.)
Belgian farting pig cartoon - Google Video
A pig who farts, dancing chickens, a cow, and a kitchen. And lots of farts. Thanks to DH for this one.
New York Region News - The City - New York Times
The NY Times takes a look at the seventy-five years young Empire State Building, the tallest building in NYC.
“Ghost Pig writes ‘The people of Exiled Gamers have put together an Abandonware Campaign with which they hope to be able to convince game publishers to rescue titles from their current ‘Abandonware’ status, and make them available for the public to play (legally) once again. They have made mention of quite a few titles that have slipped into the status of Abandonware (titles that it’s no longer possible to buy at retail, and that are near impossible to locate on sites such as eBay), which includes System Shock 2, Freespace 2, as well as older titles, such as The Chaos Engine, Alien Breed and Flashback.’
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(Via Slashdot: Games.)
Photo of the Day: 1980s Love!:
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Check out this great set of 1980s photos by Runs with Scissors on Flickr. He’s got some wonderful scanned shots of the subway, and some amazing slice-of-life shots from the Bronx, like this one. There’s some more in his portfolio series and even more in this set. [Related: Bfraz also has some 1980s NYC, and here’s a bunch of 1980s Big Apple vids on YouTube.]
(Via Gothamist.)
Video: Huge temblor gave rise to modern seismology:
“Video: Huge temblor gave rise to modern seismology. When the 1906 quake hit Northern California, author Jack London covered the damage for a magazine. The quake killed untold numbers, but it also gave rise to modern seismology in America. Here’s the story with London’s photos courtesy of the California Historical Society. 
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(Via CNET News.com.)
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We had the wood motorcycle today, so how about a wood car? ‘ It took Nickel more than four years to form the body by laminating 1-inch strips of mahogany. He used 1,000 board-feet feet of wood cut into 4,183 individual pieces, five gallons of glue, 60 pounds of drywall screws and four gallons of varnish.‘- Thanks Ubi! Link.
(Via MAKE: Blog.)
ATF agents rid university of deadly ninja threat:
“Xeni Jardin:
Agents from the US bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents detained a ‘suspicious individual’ on a Georgia college campus — a guy dressed up in a ninja costume, on his way to a party on campus.
Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. ninja event when he was detained. After being held in investigative detention, he was found to have violated no criminal laws and was not arrested.
‘It was surreal,’ Ransom said. ‘I was jogging from Wesley to Snelling when I heard someone yell ‘freeze.’’ Ransom said he thought a friend was playing a joke before he realized officers had guns drawn and pointed at him.
Link to story in The Red and Black, a paper for the University of Georgia. Image: from an unnamed student’s cameraphone, ATF officials pin down part-time ninja Jeremiah Ransom.
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(Via Boing Boing.)
Candidate Running For Mayor Of Disneyland’s New Orleans Square…:
“Kimberly Williamson Butler, a mayoral candidate in New Orleans, is running a campaign photo of her standing in what appears to be the French Quarter, but what, on closer inspection, seems to be the simulated French Quarter in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square, home of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, in Anaheim, CA. Note the red circle around the waste-can that shows where the eagle-eyed Justin spotted the tell-tale evidence. Link (Thanks, Anthony and Gene!)
(Via The Huffington Post | Full News Feed.)
Tetris Alarm Clock of Despair:
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I suppose if you’re a Tetris addict you’ll want to pick up this little travel alarm clock, but it seems a bit to messy for my taste. It would be cool if it was a better reproduction of the game and maybe played a touch of Russian folk music to wake you up in the morning.
(Via Kotaku.)
A Pile of Free WordPress Templates:
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I have five different WordPress blogs, so when I found out that I could change the templates on them 700 different ways, I about blew a gasket in gleeful anticipation. More information about this WordPress template treasure trove:
‘Since I had to search all over the place to try to find WordPress templates (er, themes), I figured I’d save you all the time and maintain a list here of every single WordPress 1.5+ Theme I could find.’
There’s sure to be something for everyone here. — Wendy Boswell
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(Via Lifehacker.)
Didn’t she almost have it all?:
“Once a megastar, Whitney Houston is now a tabloid ‘crackhead.’ But when I looked for someone to blame, I kept finding the diva herself.”
(Via Salon.com.)
“I think that she was a really well-manicured diva star and she just turned a little ghetto.” Just a little
Alleged Boss of Bosses Is Caught in Sicily:
“After 43 years on the run, Bernardo Provenzano was arrested near the hilltop town of Corleone today.”
(Via NYT > Home Page.)
“TimesOnline Benjamin Cohen, the former teenaged dot.com millionaire, has run into a problem as he tries to make his next million: Google won’t pay him for ads run on his website.”
(Via MetaFilter.)
Create Your Own Dummies Book Cover:
“You can generate your own cover… [Via Generator Blog.] (Full post)”
(Via Google Blogoscoped.)
“Stick Figures in Peril is a Flickr photo pool of over 2,000 warning signs with stick figures on them. As I seem to be fascinated with these lately, it’s totally awesome to me. I haven’t gone through all of them yet, but so far I love this one the most:
You can almost see the joy […]”
(Via Brad Sucks.)
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