Jamie Bamber and Tricia Helfer may be enemies on Battlestar Galactica, but they’re buddies in real life because both are concerned about saving animals. For Jamie Bamber, it’s saving the black bears of Canada from being hunted, killed and turned into furry hats, and Tricia Helfer wants to save cats. Because, er, apparently people are hunting, killing, and eating cats. I’m not sure about the last part, but I’m pretty sure about the first two. Probably.
We love the Germans here at SciFiCool. Among their many talents, they are fine engineers. Gears and sprockets come naturally to them. As does beer.
Perhaps a few fine German pints were used as divine inspiration for this fantastic commercial depicting the genesis and evolution of the droid.
If you’re a Sci-Nerd like me you’ve often dreamt of the day when you are rewarded for your hyperactive imagination with a life aboard your very own starship. I’d be a crew-person too don’t get me wrong, but I’m more Captain material. Lurking through the vaults at BoingBoing, I have discovered a treasure trove of concept art at the beautiful blog Conceptships depicting starships in every size and flavour. I am preparing to insert one or two into my personal fantasies. Me in the Captain’s chair, with my lovely nerdy wife as my science officer. Make it so!
These lovingly handmade killing machines from an alternate past were made by Dan at Tinkerbots
Dan makes a host of steamy and shiny copper clad bots and bugs and other things I cannot begin to fathom with my limited intellect. Brought to you from the intrepid engineers at Make.
Okay, so this is pretty old stuff and has been floating around the Internet forever, but I wanted to post it here anyway because I haven’t done so previously. It’s someone’s three year old girl explaining the plot of “Star Wars”. The original movie, not those ridiculously retarded sequels, or the way too creepy to be any fun “Clone Wars” stuff. Seriously, the animation on those things give me the creeps. This little girl actually reminds me of one of my nieces. She’s just like this. precocious to the nth degree. My niece is also addicted to anything pink, but that’s another story.
Sad news today from the world of Trek, as we have learned that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, wife of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, has passed away at the age of 76 from leukemia. If Gene was the vision behind Star Trek, then surely Majel was the voice of the franchise. Besides providing the familiar voice of the Federation computer, Majel also appeared as an actress in the original series playing various characters, as well as The Next Generation, where she played Deanna Troi’s meddlesome mother, Lwaxana, who in-between trying to get her daughter married, also kept a close eye on Captain Picard.
Wow, I have to admit, I’ve heard of something like this happening on American radio/TV before, but usually it’s got the words “Howard Stern” somewhere in the title. I certainly didn’t think an organization as supposedly “legit” as the BBC would have a radio show where the host encouraged the celebrity guest to whip out his johnson for his female co-host to scream at. But lo and behold, it did happen, and John Barrowman of Torchwood and Doctor Who fame (and who as recently as a few months ago was rumored to be in the running for Steve Rogers in the upcoming Captain America movie) was the guy who did the whipping.
Captain Kirk isn’t happy that Sulu didn’t invite him to his gay wedding, but according to Sulu, he did invite the good Captain, who just didn’t take the time to RSVP the invitation. Who is right, who is wrong, and why do we care? Well for one, it’s interesting if you’re a Trek fan, but not all that relevant to just about every other facet of life. Except for the fact that Sulu aka George Takei is marrying a guy, and Captain Kirk aka William Shatner is pretty miffed that he didn’t get invited, even though ex-Trek castmates of theirs, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig, were.
Maybe Vin Diesel should have showed this nice little animated video to the director of his “Babylon A.D.” before Mister Frenchie ran out and started telling everyone without earshot not to go see the movie. Could have been effective, who knows. Anyways, this is a nice little video someone put up on YouTube. I’m sure the guys behind “Babylon A.D.” had something to do with it, because I got an email pointing me to it. Or not.
Stargate: SG1 may have come to an end, in movie or TV form, but don’t worry for the cast, boys and girls. Everyone seems to have found something to do, or should, as you don’t star in a regular TV show for over 10 years and not have plenty of guest starring opportunities on other TV shows. TV just works that way. Once you’ve starred in a show, you’re offered jobs on other shows. Michael Shanks has taken up a number of offers, with a recurring role on the USA Network’s Burn Notice show, where he’ll be playing another burned spy who has to do the bidding of Carla, played by Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer, the same woman who burned the show’s lead, Michael Westen.
