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Which NYC Borough Houses the Modern-Day Lilliputians?
Nicolas Stoller, writer for Jack Black's modern-day tweak on Gulliver's Travels, revealed that the film will be taking place in New York City. Suddenly I'm much more interested in seeing Jack Black get accosted by tiny Lilliputians and Yahoos. [Latino Review] -
mad science
Researchers Discover Proteins That Help One Cell Become Two
This is an image of a cell ripping itself apart, turning itself from one cell into two daughter cells. Scientists have long known what this process looks like, but still know little about many chemical processes that made it happen. In tomorrow's issue of Science, an American research team describes how they discovered proteins that accomplish what seems impossible. More » -
Photography
Spend Time with Your Own Private Moon
In this series of photographs by Russian artists Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, people enjoy private moments with their own personal crescent moon, eating meals with it, having conversations with it, and taking it on nighttime journeys. The resulting images are like snapshots from a magical realist story about our relationship with a giant piece of rock orbiting the planet.
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Lost Movie
What About That Lost Movie?
People ask the strangest questions about One minute you've got a fan asking show creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse if bad boy Sawyer's need for glasses represents a spiritual journey for the character - and then you've got other fans who cut to the chase and ask when Lost is going to be a movie. At least there's a simple answer to question number two. More » -
mad science
GMO Square Trees Are Ready to Become Lumber
If we can make square tomatoes, why not square trees that are ready to chop into lumber? That's why the concept designers at Draw Me a Sheep have created this "square tree" sculpture - to suggest a way that lumber companies could, you know, stop wasting all those curvy parts they cut off trees.
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knowing
Why Does Every Apocalypse Need a Scary Globe Poster?
Here's the teaser poster for Knowing, the "numbers are bad" apocalypse movie starring Nicolas Cage, and it looks strangely familiar . . . Could it be the "menacing globe" that almost every genre film has pasted onto their posters as well? Methinks yes. The wide shot globe poster has been done from E.T. to The Core. If you don't believe me, check out the gallery of globe shame below. More » -
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Knight Rider
Knight Rider To Go Softly Into The Long, Dark Night?
We're not saying that NBC's Knight Rider is necessarily in trouble of cancellation or anything, but NBC's move to shorten the show's first season from 21 episodes to 17 isn't a good sign, let's face it. More » -
morning spoilers
Straczynski Shares Secrets Of Zombie Survival, From World War Z
Spoilers exist in a world of limitless possibility. When you read writer J. Michael Straczynski's explanation of how he and director Marc Forster plan to adapt the novel World War Z, you can just about imagine it. And when Eliza Dushku explains just how out-there some of her new personalities will be in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, your mind opens like a flower's petals. A new Lost promo poster hints at all sorts of interesting twists (and so does our exclusive set report). There's also tantalizing spoilage on the Denzel Washington-starring Book Of Eli. There are minds-eye-opening spoilers for Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Smallville, Wonder Woman and Torchwood. Let the spoilers open a world of forbidden imagination! More » -
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Concept Art
The Many Heads Of Boba Fett
Intergalactic bounty-hunter Boba Fett can bring you the head of anyone you seek, in the Star Wars universe. But he's gone through quite a few heads himself, judging from this early concept art that turned up online. Click through to see a gallery of Fett's armor and ship as a work in progress, plus the famous Ralph McQuarrie concept art that spawned its own concept-art action figure. More » -
Sundance
Paul Giamatti Wants To Steal Your Soul, Crush An Astronaut At Sundance
The Sundance festival released its competition lineup today, and it includes two science fiction heavy hitters. One features a soul-stealing inventor (Paul Giamatti) and the other is a Japanese flick about cloning a lost astronaut. Let's not forget, this was the festival that made people stand up and shout about Sleep Dealer and Timecrimes just last year, so I'm equally excited to see what the future of Sundance holds for these two. More » -
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ghostbusters
Ghostbusters Game Is So Lifelike, It's Spooky
Did they steal the souls of the original Ghostbusters stars and force them into this game? Because it is downright scary how much the characters look like their original counterparts. The Atari game, which has seen it's shares of troubles, now has a brand new trailer and an actual release date of June 2009. More » -
No More Space Porn on CNN
CNN just laid off its entire Space/Tech/Environment reporting unit. That means that one of the United States' biggest TV news sources thinks that space and the environment just aren't worth reporting on in any depth or with any consistency. Yes, we are officially grumpy about this. [via BoingBoing]
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Cream of Tank Girl review
Tank Girl Wants To Dominate Your Coffee Table
You may know Tank Girl as many things — comic book character, punk-rock icon, failed movie star... but now you will know her as a fine-art collectible. A new giant coffee-table book, The Cream Of Tank Girl, makes the case for Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's creation being a work of art with pulverizing intensity. Just check out our gallery below.
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Failed Presidential Candidate Retreats To The '70s
It's not John McCain, sadly, but the next best thing. Fred Thompson - the lawyer-turned-actor-turned-senator-turned-Republican-presidential-nominee - has signed up for a stint as Harvey Keitel's boss in ABC's time-traveling cop show Life On Mars. He'll make his first appearance next year, when the show moves to Wednesday nights, following the return of Lost. [EW.com]
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Maps
World Disaster Map Gives You the Big (Terrifying) Picture
The National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications in Hungary has put together a helpful real-time map of global disasters. In this detail, you can see a series of earthquakes that hit Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Russia today, as well as an explosion in Norway and a flood in Finland.
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Miller Still On Justice League
Looks like we were right to be suspicious of the news that George Miller was off the Justice League movie - Dark Horizons have retracted their original story as bogus after being contacted by a representative of Kennedy Miller Mitchell, adding that their source for the story - "a usually reliable source," apparently - "seems to have vanished into the electronic ether" after the fake scoop. [Dark Horizons]
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Monsters among us
Aquatic Invader Has Time Lord’s Regenerative Powers
When the Time Lords of Doctor Who face a fatal blow, they can always regenerate, taking on a newer, and often younger, body. A certain species of hydrozoa can perform a similar trick, going into hibernation when times are tough and then emerging as a younger version of itself. And researchers say this potentially immortal creature is slowly taking over our seas. More »
