Are you a Trekkie? How about a life-long dork? Need to prove it for all eternity? Then you need to line up to be the first to get one of these funeral vessels. Eternal Image will be offering a Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn style casket as well as a Star Trek inspired urn here.
Thanks to Geekologie for the heads up.
Dany
Now that we have completely solved world hunger, achieved world peace and are all healthy, wealthy and wise, UK researchers at the University of Leicester have moved on to much more pressing issues: space spending!
Even though Virgin Galactic isn’t going to be sending up any commercial space flights until at least 2009, ever since John Glenn orbited the Earth over 45 years ago, he (as well as every astronaut since) has complained about not being able to shop at the Space Mall because of flaws with our current currency in space, all those pesky space vendors just won’t accept our money! Space BASTARDS!!! How dare they leave us in the cold like that.
Well, those researchers have created an innovative solution: SPACE MONEY! They wouldn’t dare be so bold as to call it that though, they decided on Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination or QUID.
Didn’t you wish your money looked more like a candy colored yo-yo? It’s perfect, create a currency that consists of gigantic discs that are solid and are unfoldable!
I bet you’re asking how much this new money will cost you… well, it can all be your at the low low price of £6.25, 12.5 dollars or 8.68 Euros, who wouldn’t want to pass that up?
Thanks to Geekologie for their story as well as Engadget for their post.
Dany
iwatchstuff continually unearths interesting tidbits and this is no exception. It seems that as a midseason replacement, scifi channel will be premiering a new show based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
With this new iteration of a classic story, it looks like they have tried to make the story fit the generation with the shortest attention span, with quick cuts, striking visuals and turning the classic and well known themes from the original story on their heads, calling OZ the Outer Zone and having characters abbreviate it as The O-Z (like the show, The OC).
The show looks interesting (maybe even creepy, with Richard Dreyfuss as the Wizard… er the Mystic Man), Alan Cumming is always fun to watch and I loved Zooey Deschanel in Elf. Watch and see for yourself though.
Dany
Also, if you wanted to listen to the audiobook of the original story, you can get it through iTunes over here or you can just get it here.
I have been exposed to their ad campaign for a few weeks now, mainly because their posters have been plastered all over the NYC subway system, but those ads never really grabbed me, so I put 30 Days Night out of my mind. After enjoying 3:10 to Yuma and finding out that Ben Foster will also be in 30 Days Night, I saw that iwatchstuff was talking about an exclusive clip from the film being displayed from the film’s official website. After watching that, I knew I had to find the trailer, which I found the HD version of on Yahoo! trailers. The movie is based on a graphic novel and sounds like an interesting concept in the vampire movie genre.
You can watch the clips below too.
Dany
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