Speculative Nonfiction

F-sub-p is going down all the time, isn't it? If you're interested in this sort of thing, you've a. already read articles like...

Here's your early 90s metal shot for the day: The Witching, by Meliah Rage, from Solitary Solitude . (Forgive the commercial, if they ...

First off: there's a live action movie coming out in December (good). It's only being released in Japan (++ungood). Join this awe...

Jack Chick does it again with another hilarious comic - this time about Dungeons and Dragons! The full tract in all its goofiness can be ...

I'm about to lose my shit over here. I have seen some ugly rumors that Yamato won't be on the big screen in the U.S. The fact t...

Source: Last.fm blog Young and male are in the top right corner. As are Metallica, Slayer, and Iron Maiden, the awesomest bands ever. ...

Astrophysicists from Lawrence Berkeley Labs (and other contributors) have a paper in the Astrophysical Journal about their model which allow...

A spy satellite on top of a Minotaur vehicle, launched last night from Vandenberg AFB, exactly at the start of the launch window. (What...

That's it. If you want to see how our species will be exterminated, just go read Boing Boing, I don't have to re-post them any more...

Listen, I warned you all, I really did. But no, everyone thinks that the evil Singularity monsters will look like the grinning red-eyed Ter...

And it's Scottish pirate metal. Behold, Alestorm : Thanks to Scott in my class for the reminder of this important day and H/T to F...

Ant mills are all the rage in the blogosphere the past few days. Ants get locked into a pattern of following each other in a circle, and t...

I don't know what these guys are thinking . Maybe they're trying to create a new enemy for the Autobots: the Politicons. ZING!

The Norwegians already had a Doomsday Vault for plants , but as it turns out right here in San Diego there's one for animals . Now that...

That's the prediction in a forthcoming PLOSOne paper . Wow. H/T Tyler Cowen. Note that habitable doesn't necessarily mean oxygen ...

There will be metal. Make sure you get your tickets by the 30th here . Recall that if you have the chance to see CIC and you don't, I...

Analysis software is usually pretty pointless and low-resolution (if it's not completely non-random), but like many people my narcissism...

...or at least turning the key in a preserved missile silo, and of course it's a two-person operation. More below. The missile is (...

Look at this goddamn picture: Eat your heart out TGP. Behind that stack of Deathlands books is a whole other set of Deathlands books . ...

Who knew Calgary (and Lethbridge, and Edmonton) had such an awesome metal scene? People in Alberta, that's who. Having just returned f...