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Meet The Spock Cat!

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:00:00 PST

Some spam-blogger decided to auto-generate a Star Trek page, and accidentally crafted a work of brilliance. First of all, instead of getting a picture of Spock, they pulled in someone's photo of a cat that has the most Spock-like expression you've ever seen. Also, there are quotes from Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine where they seem to be speaking English as a second language. Highly illogical!

Spam blog informs us:

Zachary Quinto on Spock: “I truly associate to the duality of his perspective. I consider all the materials that Spock is famous for - the logic versus the emotion, the human versus the alien - are at the basic of his travel in this film. I feel he’s less filtered in his ability to deal with them.”
Chris Pine on Kirk: “Kirk is the bombastic, charged, emotional, angry, vulnerable guy - he finds to screen all sides at 100 % complete throttle. He’s everywhere. To rob a line from this election, he’s a maverick.”

Whoa, is Kirk everywhere? Or does he associate to the duality of his perspective? It's so hard to say.

[Spam Blog and Bad Spock]

Terminator 4's Future Will Look Like Our World... But Different

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:20:00 PDT

The official Terminator Salvation blog posted a little interview with Visual Effects Supervisor Charles Gibson. The effects master talks loosely about making the Skynet-dominated world a reality: "This film plays in an altered but plausible version of our world. We're primarily concerned with bringing the Terminator elements home, to make you believe this reality could be just around the corner. It's a very different sort of challenge." And he also gives us hints about shakey-cam moments with an insane pace. Hey, you had me at Connor in a Motorcycle chase. Terminator 4 set pic from VideoETA. [Beyond Judgment]

Modify Your Body But Also Worry About the Planet

grae — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:00:58 PST

Warren Ellis has created a new biopunk blog called Grinding, spun out of his Doktor Sleepless comic. Mostly it's about body modification, but is also sprinkled with Ellis's traditional techno-urbanism and pretty picture obsessions. The best part is Ellis' introduction to the site, where he talks about a new breed of body-hacking humans.

Ellis writes:

I have given this place over to a crack team of mental patients with the brief to discover and present The Future — particularly the "future" of DOKTOR SLEEPLESS and grinder culture — wherever it lays, in potential, in the soil of The Present. I said to them: "Imagine: you want to be a superconnected, modified, new kind of human, and you consider your own body to be a work in progress, so you're constantly looking for new things you can do to yourself (and others) while also keeping an eye on the collapsing planet around you because you want to have enough time to finish your body (or wish to use your many communications-technology devices to record it all as it collapses around your ears)."

We know the feeling. Flickr image by satragon

Grinding.be

A Fresh Apocalypse Every Day

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:00:23 PST

Do you feel like you're falling behind when it comes to the latest developments in post-apocalyptic pop culture? Now you never have to be out of the end-of-the-world loop again, thanks to the Quiet Earth blog, a fantastic compendium of all things apocalypse devoted to "making the post-apocalyptic genre mainstream." Hold the right-wing nut jokes, please. The team of 7 smart weirdos who run this site cover everything from books to video games, and they find some of the most obscure freaky shit I've ever seen.

Like who knew about this apocalyptic animated short Dear Beautiful? Or the upcoming Christmas apocalypse movie Satan Hates You? And in case you need to plan your apocalypse carefully, they have a nice sidebar listing every pre- and post-apocalyptic movie coming out in the next year or so. Plus, they have a radio show. Hopefully next they'll have a recipe book. Stick this blog in your RSS feed. You won't be sorry.

Quiet Earth [blog]