Hunter Davis performs a shockingly accurate impersonation of Ian Mckellan’s Gandalf character from Lord of the Rings… reciting the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. While Hunter performs it passionately and well, it’s disturbing to hear that powerful voice coming out of such a baby faced guy.
Link — via BoingBoing, YouTube
Jupiter has lost one of its signature red bands since the planet became difficult to view in late 2009. Scientists are unsure why the band disappeared, though it’s possible it is being hidden by high altitude cloud cover, or aliens.
This is not the first time the south equatorial belt has disappeared. It was absent in 1973 when NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft took the first closeup images of the planet and also temporarily vanished in the early 1990s.
Link – via New Scientist
The 2010 Hugo Award Nominees were announced this past weekend at Aussiecon 4 (if you’re on this site, I assume you know that the Hugo is one of the best and greatest Sci Fi / Fantasy awards… if you want to impress your friends, bone up on your Hugo knowledge here). Read more to see the contenders:
Synopsis: In a post apocalyptic future, a British laboratory invents a way to generate impenetrable fields called Bobbles around people, objects, or even entire cities. The inventors use it to enforce a new regime called the Peace Authority.
Moon is like a chocolate you think is solid, and you’re fine with that, and then you almost immediately hit raspberry filling and realize it’s taking your taste buds in a good, but different, direction.
The Heechee Saga was written by the renowned Frederik Pohl, and begins with a bang: a Hugo, Nebula, Locus, AND John W. Campbell award winning intro novel that blasts the series in the right direction. The Heechee Saga follows a dynamic and impulsive character through myriad adventures that explore the mysteries of the Heechee, an advanced alien race that left nothing but remnants of their incomprehensible technology behind. There’s action, danger, and mystery, with a sobering undertone of complicated emotions. Frederik Pohl explores close interpersonal relationships in tense circumstances, and rounds it all out with tantalizing glimpses of a somewhat dystopian future.
Book 1 of the Heechee Saga
Synopsis:
An impulsive youth uses his lottery winnings to buy a one way ticket to an abandoned alien spaceport full of mysterious ships, hoping to make his fortune.
Dragonheart is like a tech demonstration from 1996 – they’re really damn excited about this dragon they’ve managed to animate really well, and they want to show it off to you in a lighthearted 5 minute clip. Only that clip… is nearly 2 hours long.
The Rocketeer wants to be a violent action film, full of vicious 40′s style mobsters and nefarious, spying Nazis, but it can’t pull it off… not because it doesn’t have the budget (it does), not because it doesn’t have the story (it does), but because the movie was produced by Disney. In typical Mickey Mouse fashion, the stereotypical scarred mobsters were turned into middle school bullies with a patriotic streak, and the professional Nazi spy became a mustachioed leading man. The Rocketeer could have been like Indiana Jones, but ended up closer to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Atari Glasses!
They’re a steep $30 for a set of 4, over at ThinkGeek
Link – Via Wonderland