Like you've got something better to do on a Friday night...

Yet another Gawker blog that I optimistically add to my feed reader in the hopes that this will finally be the one that I don't unsub two weeks later. I dig the clever explanation of the name at least.

I'm actually a fan of spending, say, 1% of the defense budget on completely outlandish ideas to see what sticks

The other day, I was wondering where the "nuke from orbit" quote came from. Of course, it had to be Ripley.

"To move a mass at the speed of light would take infinite energy. It appears that there is a distinct barrier here." HA!

What people in the past thought the future would be like

Digg for SicFi

Really amazing, fantastic attention to detail

Frak yes!

Adapted for the small screen by Stephenson himself! Yet another show to grab off iTunes

Retconning Star Wars makes R2D2 and Chewbacca two of the more important characters in the films. Or, if episode 3.5 were written by the CIA

When you get thrown out the airlock, you've got about a minute and a half, maybe two, to get back in

BBC Blade Runner documentary

Easy. Just touch the match to

"What would happen if Imperial Stormtroopers and Redshirts got in a firefight?" This is my daily reason to love Wikipedia

These are good

Warner Herzog made an "undersea outer-space sci-fi documentary" that's supposed to be cool

Absolutely brilliant

He conducted the interviews in 1966 for an opening montage for "2001" that had to be cut later

"Darkness clouds everything"

I haven't finished season 1 yet, time to get those torrents going

Getting ready for the future utopia

Every bit as good as his books