Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008
New Stella Artois website uses brewer's long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially "L'Origine."
Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions. Learn when the taser, credit cards
Science Fiction
Star Wars, the baroque version
Star Wars, the baroque version. Like steampunk, but older.
(Via Old is the New New.)
Red, Green, and Blue
I'm currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson's superb Mars Trilogy, an imagined history of humankind's colonization of Mars. The first in the series, Red Mars, was published in
History on the Corner
To commemorate 30 years of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service has started painting its blue corner mailboxes to look like R2-D2, the lovable droid who first appeared in 1977.
I was
F/X
A quick one tonight from Popular Mechanics: The Top 10 F/X Scenes in Movie History. In fact it's not a countdown of scenes at all, but rather a list of