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Pier 70 and Dogpatch adventure -- a photoset on Flickr
"I rode my bike through some of the historic maritime manufacturing districts of San Francisco. It was eerily amazing."
sf  pier70  manufacturing  marine  bicyclist  photos  microcorrespondent  dispatch 
august 2007 by bkerr
The Vault -- a Fallout wiki | Timeline
"Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone ... Additionally, this timeline includes all dates mentioned in Fallout and Fallout 2 holodisks, in the dialogues, and in old design documents."
games  fallout  wiki  life-in-the-vault  future  sf  timeline 
july 2007 by bkerr
Liana’s paperdoll blog | Rheya’s white beach dress from Solaris (book)
"I read Solaris carefully, but all we know is that when Rheya returns, she wears a white beach dress. No visible fastenings -- the buttons are ornamental -- and short sleeves that hide the evidence of her suicide."
lit  sf  solaris  rheya  harey  mimoid  ultra  teleology  terror  solipsist  incompleteness  tragedy 
march 2007 by bkerr
Foreign Office | Children of Men
Media + multimedia + interactive media from "Children of Men" -- nice to get a closer look at some of the micro details in a very hectic haptic happening movie.
media  advertising  ui  interaction  design  future  lit  sf  politics 
february 2007 by bkerr
The Steampunk Workshop
"Making artifacts from an alternative age..." Totally enamored with the trilobite brooch.
diy  steampunk  sf  aesthetic  trilobite  jewelry 
february 2007 by bkerr
The Futurologician Congress
Joshua has seen the future and it is tagtagging, friendzilla, and netdriving. Oldie but goodie.
lit  sf  language  wordie  fun  via:revgeorge 
february 2007 by bkerr
Wordie: Ansible
What we called Twitter, before Twitter had a name.
twitter  attention  communication  sf 
december 2006 by bkerr
THE OLAF STAPLEDON ONLINE ARCHIVE
"This site attempts to host works by Olaf Stapledon that are out of print. Now you've found it, click on the 'Online Works' section and enjoy!" AWESOME
lit  sf  past 
december 2006 by bkerr
Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories
"33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction."
lit  sf  microcrap 
october 2006 by bkerr
VALIS: Simon Chamberlain’s library weblog
Just about the perfect title for a library weblog, very clever.
library  weblogs  sf  via:rosefirerising 
october 2006 by bkerr
Wikipedia | Cylon, Wisconsin
"Cylon is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 629 at the 2000 census."
lit  sf  names  wisconsin 
september 2006 by bkerr
App After App or A zoology of next year's web applications
Slides and notes from Matt Webb's presentation @ BarCamp London.
web  ui  design  classification  lit  sf  fun 
september 2006 by bkerr
365 tomorrows | Endings and Beginnings
"It seems like it’s been forever" -- but it's been, in fact, one year. Congrats!
lit  sf  weblogs 
july 2006 by bkerr
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, by Larry Niven
"Assume a mating between Superman and a human woman designated LL for convenience."
lit  sf  comics  superman  sex  ideas/bad 
june 2006 by bkerr
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
"...is a community effort to catalog works of fiction. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and fort
lit  sf  fiction  bibliography  past  future  via:ryanmax 
june 2006 by bkerr
Alex Chiu's Eternal Life Device
"More advanced than Star Trek technology! When it comes to medical technology, my technology is 2nd to none. 2nd to none! I am risking danger from FDA trying to bring my technology to light."
life  humans  sf  via:revgeorge  fun 
june 2006 by bkerr
Cover art for "A Scanner Darkly"
This is one of those dated-yet-timeless SF covers. At least you can infer that the artist had appreciated the book.
lit  sf  book  art 
june 2006 by bkerr
TenNapel.com
Doug TenNapel is blogging again!
comics  movies  lit  sf  religion  weblogs 
june 2006 by bkerr
A2Serenity-EqualityNow
Screening of "Serenity" at Michigan Theater, June 17, benefit for Equality Now.
annarbor  sf  movies 
june 2006 by bkerr
Beyond the Beyond | Spime Watch: A Magic Wand
"Mike Kuniavsky has hacked together a 'magic-wand' for 'smart objects.' If you think that the best model for ubicomp is animistic pan-psychism, then this is your interface."
spime  ubicomp  sf  objects 
may 2006 by bkerr
thedaniel | Spwone not Spime
Dan puts on his Bruce Sterling hat and talks about OBJECTS.
spime  sf  work  spaces  etc 
may 2006 by bkerr
NASA Advanced Supercomputing | Space Colony Art from the 1970s
"Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made." This stuff looks like Villa Straylight.
nasa  space  travel  future  city  images  sf  visual  design 
may 2006 by bkerr
YouTube - They are made out of meat
7-minute film version of classic Terry Bisson story.
lit  sf  past  fun  movies 
may 2006 by bkerr
ANOTHER WORLD - Site officiel
And here's the (incomplete) English version of the site.
games  lit  sf  past 
april 2006 by bkerr
ANOTHER WORLD - Site officiel
Official site (in French) of the classic game known on these shores as "Out of This World."
games  lit  sf  past 
april 2006 by bkerr
Adam Cadre | Primer
"The detractors of this film say that it is baffling, impenetrable, amateurish. Its advocates call it gloriously baffling, brilliantly impenetrable, stylishly amateurish."
movies  sf  lit 
april 2006 by bkerr
The Onion | Science-Fiction Novel Posits Future Where Characters Are Hastily Sketched
"The swashbuckling tale of the battle for control of the solar system depicts a terrifying future filled with virtually indistinguishable characters who only communicate through stilted and shallow dialogue."
lit  sf  toread 
march 2006 by bkerr
The War Of The Worlds: the historical perspective
Site doesn't look like much, but it does have some interesting details, including a good description of "The Night America Trembled" (a TV reenactment of the Welles broadcast involving Edward Murrow).
sf  mars  past  lit  film  radio  future 
january 2006 by bkerr
i.plot demo [Flash]
See previous bookmark for metacrap.
lit  sf  social  metacrap  narrative  future 
october 2005 by bkerr
i.plot
"The future of narrative in a project that studies the hidden relationships and contextual emergence of language."
lit  sf  social  metacrap  narrative  future 
october 2005 by bkerr
365tomorrows.com
"365 tomorrows is a collaborative project designed to present readers with one new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year."
web  lit  sf  future 
august 2005 by bkerr
rogerebert.com | The Island
"All closed systems, no matter how spotless and pristine, always have an area filled with rusty machinery, cigarette butts, oily rags, and a guy who reads dirty magazines and knows how everything really works."
movies  future  sf  axiomatic 
july 2005 by bkerr
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