The Pleasures of Coraline

The Donnie Darko Sequel

I somehow missed it when they posted a teaser-trailer for a sequel to Donnie Darko called S. Darko:

The Singularity University: Cool or Funny?

The line is so, so fine. The deal: apparently there is a new educational institution, headquartered at the NASA Ames Campus (i.e. right next door to Google), that is entirely devoted to the study of the Singularity. The Singularity being a term borrowed by Vernor Vinge from astrophysics and re-borrowed by boy genius Billy Quizboy [...]

A Hideous Brood of New SF Trailers Chews Its Way Out Through the Corpse of Another Super Bowl

Another year, another Super Bowl not watched. I know lots of nerds are actually into watching the Super Bowl. I could never get behind watching a game I don’t play, played by people with whom I don’t have very much in common. I suppose there are passionate regional loyalties in play, plus genuinely interesting strategic [...]