Fearful Symmetries

German New Wavers are going 3-D. First it was Werner Herzog and now Wim Wenders with his latest Pina , a documentary about the work of mode...

William Rabkin and Steve Ecclesine got fed up with how Civil War history is presented to lay audiences and decided to make it more accessibl...

A couple weeks ago the Wisconsin legislature was busy trying to figure out exactly how to change the laws so as to allow residents to carry ...

Having done a spot of flying last weekend, I am pleased to say that I didn't have any troubles with the TSA and they now have a nice pic...

David Cronenberg's latest - A Dangerous Method - is due later this year. From IndieWire : In the film Keira Knightley plays Sabina Spie...

I was looking forward to Source Code because I was impressed with director Duncan Jones' flawed but enjoyable Moon which took its sci-...

If I had an iPad, I'd definitely get this "living book" edition of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". It has tons of...

This is great. A college student in Canada showed up to his medieval history final in armor . The fellow student, who goes by the profile na...

This little video dovetails nicely with a recent read of mine, Oil on the Brain .

I bought a copy of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War after reading that Ridley Scott was going to be directing a film adaptation of the st...

A fellow geek recommended Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks to me and so I dutifully procured a copy. A book by a geek a...

Dragon turds may have a scatological name but are very tasty. To my knowledge the term refers to stuffing chili peppers with whatever trips ...

Our cat discovered the joy and comfort of the empty fruit bowl on our table this morning.

Somebody call Dick Hoagland! Some guy checking out pictures of Mars on Google Earth believes he's stumbled upon a bit of Martian archite...

With The Jennifer Morgue Charles Stross threw his network administrator-cum-secret agent Bob Howard into James Bond mode for a fun romp tha...

"Statuettes way beyond Baywatch with breasts..."

Madison is no stranger to debates about buses and rail. But as the Dane Transit Coalition chair Fred Bartol noted last night, those debates ...

The Adjustment Bureau wasn't a bad movie like I thought it would be. Fans of Philip K. Dick like myself get a bit weary when we hear th...

Like Bob Marley used to sing: legalize it . This is Neil Franklin, the director of Law Enforcement Against Drug Prohibition reflecting on hi...