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Stop Looking At Your Phones

Take a look at this brilliant Downton Abbey parody, also parodying the propensity for us plebeian pedestrians to ponder our phones. (Be warned, however — the parody does use some language that may offend).

Fantasy / Geeky Stuff

Gothic Castle For Sale

Take a look at this crazy cool gothic castle for sale in Woodstock, Connecticut. It costs a cool $45 million, but it does have a moat, 8 bed rooms, a motor pool, and covers 22,000 sq ft of pure medieval fun. Now all it needs is a dragon to perch...

Science

Fusion In the Next Decade?

This is big news–really big news. Normally, I would shrug off claims about viable fusion power within the next 10 years. But this claims is not coming from some crackpot nutcase. This claim comes from Lockheed Martin; and when Lockheed Martin claims to have made a break-through, people listen. According to...

Sci-Fi / Steampunk

The Great Martian War

As historical footage / CGI mashups go, this one takes the cake! Using World War I archival footage, CGI, and probably some reenactment footage as well, this video shows what a real Martian War would have looked like in 1914. The footage is from a History Channel mockumentary called “The...

Fantasy / Geeky Stuff

Dragon*Con 2014 Costumes

I posted previously about Dragon*Con 2014, with a few pictures of some of the artifacts at their steampunk museum, but I just discovered this epic video by Crimson Arrow highlighting some of the particularly impressive costumes at Dragon*Con 2014. It is definitely a must see!

Geeky Stuff / Sci-Fi

Dragon*Con 2014

We got back from Dragon*Con 2014 last week, but this is the first chance I’ve had to actually post about it. As always, we had a great time. We got to see Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, Harry Turtledove, Gene Wolfe, and Walter Koenig. Patrick Stewart was also there, but...

Geeky Stuff / Sci-Fi

Star Trek: Axanar

More crowd-funded fan-made sci-fi movie goodness! Take a look at the Kickstarter campaign for Star Trek: Axanar. Their 20 minute prelude film is pretty good, and they are right on target for their budget for the full 90 minute movie! Crowd-funded fan-made sci-fi movies are truly the wave of the...