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Those Portal turrets really aren't such bad robots. After all, it's not their fault that they're programmed to shoot you in the face. Everyone's favorite guilt-tripping sentinels get into the gleeful spirit with "This is Aperture," an ode to the puzzle-filled test facility sung to the tune of The Nightmare Before Christmas's "This is Halloween." [via Metafilter] More »
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At the end of each episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, one of the show's cartoon ponies dictates a letter to the pegacorn Princess Celestia, telling her what she's learned about friendship. Not to be outdone, Portal's villainous AI GlaDOS gets in on the act, and she has a request for the princess. More »
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Here's further proof that basically everything goes better with Portal. Check out Ryan Kelly and his coworkers' Portal-fied Christmas tree, which certainly beats the hell out of the 20 years' worth of musty tinsel I festooned all over my folks' Tannenbaum this very evening. Also, learn how to make this Aperture Science-infused arbor for next year. More »
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Last night, pranksters from CalTech dolled up the famous Alamo sculpture in Manhattan's Astor Place with the exterior of an Aperture Science Companion Cube. Here's the note they left to boot. Prediction: cosplaying public art will be the next big trend come 2012.

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The Portal series is of exceedingly high quality, so it's unsurprising that the game is inspiring some terrifically snazzy fan movies. In Dan Trachtenberg's Portal: No Escape, a prisoner uses her Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device to escape from her captors. More »
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With Valve's breakout video games, Portal and Portal 2, attracting so much attention as of late, it's easy to forget that portals are something of a time-honored tradition in science fiction and fantasy. So, in the spirit of inclusiveness, we've reached outside the orange box to bring you this collection of concept art, fan art, and stills from some of our favorite windows in time and space. More »
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Fans of Valve video games sure love making hyper-detailed fan movies. The latest one, Outside Aperture, tells the hidden history of what happened after the first Portal. It's not canonical, but it's cute. More »
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Megan Lara enshrines science fiction heroines in Art Nouveau illustrations, transforming them from pop culture queens into goddesses and archetypal spirits of adventure. More »
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Who needs a companion cube, when you can cuddle up to this turret plushie, that will exclaim "there you are" with each nuzzle? Watch this amazing creation interact with its owners! It's not a lie! More »
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Can Portal 2's ending credits song, "Want You Gone," live up to the amazing original Portal closing ditty "Still Alive?" The tune has already been posted online. So go ahead, spoil yourself, listen, and compare. More »
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We've featured Miles Donovan's science fiction schematics before, and now he's mapped out the interior of an Aperture Science's patented Handheld Portal Device. Donovan is selling prints of this blueprint over at Etsy. More »
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After teaming up for a Left 4 Dead webcomic, Michael Avon Oeming of Powers fame has joined up again with gaming company Valve to create a webcomic for the upcoming teleportation gun (and snarky robot) title Portal 2. More »
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One Portal fan created this jack o'lantern based on the talking turrets. This turret even pans left and right in search of targets, although there's no word on whether it politely asks you not to smash it. [via Nerdcore] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5677278&view=rss&microfeed=true Sure the nerdcore craze is totally hip, with guys like MC Frontalot and MC Hawking drawing in crowds of dozens with their geeksta raps about particle physics. But they're just selling out the real scifi music underground, which includes hidden classics like the Portal Song, above, written by Popular Science magazine's resident composer and included in the closing credits of cult video game Portal. Plus, nerdcore bands are just johnnies-come-lately in the true scifi music tradition. More »
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The arrival of dystopian scifi video game Mass Effect has us reaching for our Prozac . . . and our controllers. The darker and weirder the world a video game gives us, the better. Whether it involves an alien invasion, or a maniacal artificial intelligence, we love games that crush our dreams in an orgy of hopeless shootouts. Mass Effect is just the latest in a whole crop of disturbing, scifi thriller games you should stockpile for the long, cold months ahead. More »
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