Is that a lightsaber in your...silhouette...or are you happy to see this 50s-style Star Wars poster?
In a stunning reversal of traditional reporting, Bookgasm tracks the least popular search terms that still got people to the site. I’d hate to see ours!
A clock that eats flies, fine, but I draw the line at vertebrates-as-fuel. Ew.
A museum of the most interesting materials on the planet! I want to go play with the aerogel and the nano-composite everything. (via Futurismic)
“Mahna Mahna” grows up. djBC remixes familiar Muppet and Sesame Street music. (via BoingBoing)
Fantasy & Science Fiction announces an online workshop, and also mentions that attendees may get published in F&SF. Hmm. Over at Making Light, Patrick Nielsen Hayden responds.
Karen Burnham is looking for examples of Golden Age, New Wave, and Post-Cyberpunk science fiction stories to help her write a story-sorting algorithm.
All 12 minutes of HBO’s First Look at Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are online here.
SF Signal highlights a cool new show, Science of the Movies. It seems like Mythbusters with a tighter focus; if only I had a TV!
The Star Wars cantina song on yet another weird instrument: the Chapman stick. (Think, what if an electric guitar were a percussion instrument?)
I like cake. I like Threadless t-shirts. How can this be bad? (via BoingBoing)