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From the sketch comedy group POKYPAC comes The Walken Dead, a television series about an entire planet overrun by undead cannibals who know how to run a joke into the ground. Zombies and Christopher Walken impressions may be a smidge overplayed, but they're surprisingly fresh combined. More »
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Whenever someone urges you to do something dumb in the name of science, it's always a good idea to stop and ponder. That's the important takeaway message in this clip from 1983's Brainstorm, the second movie from Silent Running director Douglas Trumbull. Scientists invent a new method for recording experiences, thoughts and even sensations, for later playback. So of course one of the first uses someone puts it to is seducing a blonde in a stripey polo shirt, so every sleazebag around the office can share in her connubial experience. (Clip is probably work-safe, although the guys are very skeezy.) More »
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It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. If we can hack Wiis and iPods and old Segas, make garage door openers into mobile phones and cause elevators to run backwards — or turn upside-down, or do whatever it is that elevator hacks are supposed to do — then could we also hack the surface of the earth? Could we hack geology? Could we use plate tectonics to re-direct whole island chains, color rocks, print cities out of magma, and build mountains where mountains have no right to be? Here are the Entropist's top five ways to change the surface of the earth. More »
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