Every time I hear an ad for “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” It sounds like “Keeping Up With the Cardassians”
Does the Star Trek universe have reality shows?
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Zap, Tom said shockingly
Weird: Apparently Tasers were named for a Tom Swift invention, as in “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle.”
Satellite Market, Fast Food Options, Ada and More
- Last night I learned that the Satellite Market near Disneyland is still there, but the Sputnik-style sign has been replaced. Old & new photos.
- Side salad vs. fries study: Adding a healthier option caused people to choose the unhealthy option more often. It’s made me a lot more aware of what I order for lunch.
- Spam apparently advertising speed bumps: “Women won’t hide their excitement when they see your bulge in the street”
- Funny webcomic: Ada Lovelace: The Origin! (via @johannadc)
Not So Farscape
This logo really reminds me of the Farscape logo.
It’s not the same font, but it’s close enough to evoke the same feel.
Lol Lol Binks
Jar-Jar Binks speaks LOLCat – or rather LOLcats speak Gungan.
— (Katie on rewatching Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace)
Geocities Fading Away
Farewell, Geocities. It was nice knowing you. (Wait, no it wasn’t!)
In a message on Yahoo!’s help site, the company said that it would be shuttering Geocities, a free web-hosting service, later this year and will not be accepting any new customers.
Update: I wrote a bit more on the fandom side of things over at Speed Force:
I can’t say I’ll miss GeoCities itself — but there are still a lot of sites connected to comics fandom hosted there. Some are kept current, some are old but still contain useful information, and some are snapshots of an earlier era of online fandom
Pushing Daisies Resurrected in Comics
Pushing Daisies is being resurrected as 12-issue comic book miniseries! Bryan Fuller tells E! Online:
We got a 12-issue order for a comic book for DC Comics. I think the comic book is great, because it has all the characters in it, and it starts a new story. It’s basically Chuck, Ned, Emerson and Olive versus 1,000 corpses, so it becomes a zombie movie, but the zombies are articulate and smart and can do things that no other zombies can do. The Pie-Maker versus 1,000 corpses. … It’s the movie idea that I wasn’t sure we’d get to do. [The plot] is not really so much the back nine [episodes] as it would’ve been on the television show, it’s a whole new story that wraps everything up in a different context.
Update 2024: Sadly, this never happened.