Holy crap do I ever love that one with the scientist hugging the nuke plant. But what do I love more? Two of the tees below. First, I adore the one that says "fucking pterodactyls," a sentiment I experience practically every time Rodan steals my Prius. And the ear mouse one. Just because I've always wanted to grow an extra ear on my cat. I don't think she'd mind.

There are a lot more where these came from, including a bunch more "teach the controversy" ones (including unicorns!). And they're priced pretty reasonably, too.

Amorphia Apparel [official site]

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You can see a bunch more designs at the Atomic Tarantula website. I have the "damn dirty apes" tee and have gotten a lot of compliments on it!

Atomic Tarantula [official site]

Collect them all:

Star Wars Light Saber
Firefly
Master Chief
Nuke
Phaser

Transformers T-shirt is Bad Idea at Airport [via Hide Your Arms]

The new stills and wallpapers, mostly come from the movie's new website, which director Harry Bajewa (Harman's dad) says is the most futuristic website they could make. (It has Java!) And here's that awesome dancing clip. I'm still beyond excited for this movie.

[123 Masala and Bollywood Hungama]

Here's this year's standout Cthulhu for president shirt. Every election season, you've got to vote for the creature who does not represent the "lesser evil," but this tee takes it one step farther. Love the "Ia Ia America Fh'tagn" slogan here — it makes me think that somewhere in the ocean deep, slimy tentacled creatures are singing the praises of the U.S. government. It's good to have allies!

For those who are tossing their lot in with Admiral Adama, leader of Battlestar Galactica, there's always the swag available through AdamaforPresident.org. There's this poster (at left, available in larger sizes obviously), and a simple "Adama 08" tee. No word on his running mate. May we suggest Helo? Anybody who can mutiny against Starbuck can certainly hold his own against Adama. Plus, he has that hybrid baby which makes him totally plugged into the next generation.

Reynolds/Washburn tee [Ziraxia]

Cthulhu 2008 tee [Zazzle]

Open to the public on May 7th, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" will display authentic movie costumes, and will reveal how superheros are the ultimate metaphor for fashion and it's ability to empower and transform. There are about 60 pieces on display. Many of the costumes are divided into groups based on the super power and what it does to the body such as Mutant Body, Paradoxical Body, Armored Body and Virile Body. The exhibit will run at the Met from May 7 until September 1. [The Metropolitan Museum Of Art]

I love the tee with the laser-eyed robot (below).

And who could resist this bizarre tee (bottom), which says "wonderful future life" and is topped with inexplicable pictures of mouse heads and explodey stars.

Be sure to check out the Terratag gundam gallery.

Terratag via Hide Your Arms.

Space Fatigues
Seen in BSG, Farscape, Starship Troopers (below), and pretty much anywhere you've got a military-style group zooming around in space. Usually featuring an insignia with a swooshy ship or stars, lots of zippers, and maybe some kind of ammo belt, space fatigues get one crucial thing wrong. In the future, presumably we'll have decent-enough nanotech armor that military types can wear ultra-lightweight clothing that looks like whatever they want and it will still be blaster-proof, and capable of hardening into splints when needed. Plus, zippers in the future? Really? Space fatigues do, of course, have their dressier sides. You can always wear your dress uniform with the gold braid.

The Unisex Onesie
Why do all futuristic space-faring people have these frakkin onesies? It's partly Star Trek's fault, with their awful polyester uniforms. But something about space just makes people think "boxy onesie." Even in the 1980s Buck Rogers (right), which was all about making space sexier, they still had the onsies, albeit in ultratight white and sometimes shiny colors. Plus, they all had these great rainbow armbands to go with their onesies, to make it seem as if in the future gay people would rule the world but no longer shop at The Gap. A subset of the unisex onesie is also the Facist Identity-Erasure Onesie, which you see in THX-1138.

The Holy Crap What the Hell Uniform
The "holy crap what the hell" outfits of Sci-Fi Channel's Dune miniseries and the movie The Fifth Element are a handy way to get at what this style is really all about. Basically, in the future we won't wear onesies (thankfully) but instead we'll have wrapped ourselves in gauze tape to cover just the naughty bits — or for some reason we will wear really tall strange hats. Dune, at least in the Sci-Fi imagining of it, is basically a future where strange headgear have taken over. And don't even get me started on Sting's outfit in David Lynch's Dune movie. It really makes you appreciate the versatility of the phrase "holy crap what the hell?!"

Gwar
I'm glad that the styles pioneered by rock band Gwar have survived into the future, alternate dimensions, and every other nook and cranny of the science fiction universe. For some reason, when people aren't doing what-the-crap with their outfits, or squirming into an impossibly tight onesie, they're dressed in leathers and crazy giant boots. With capes, too, sometimes. The Klingons do it; the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon do it; why shouldn't the entire future of civilization do it too? I should point out that there are a couple of Gwar fashion corollaries. There is the Nine Inch Nails look, shown off in Farscape quite a bit, as well as inside the Matrix. Then there is the Hippie Shift look, which you see a lot in Star Wars and incidentally also in the Matrix when people are outside the Matrix's Nine Inch Nails sartorial zone. In fact, who could forget the shocking displays of Hippie Shifts during the rave scene in Matrix: Reloaded? You cannot wash your eyes out with soap and make the memory go away.

For only $7.95, you too can knit yourself into a Carrie Fisher frame of mind, thanks to Etsy member Ansley Bleu. That's the price of a special knitting pattern for a "Leia wig hat," able to transform even the least coke-addled starlet amongst us into Debbie Reynolds' wild child princess from Alderaan.

Ansley, based in LA, has managed to get the best celebrity endorsement for her work - Not only has Carrie Fisher herself seen the hat, she's worn it onstage as part of a one-woman show about her life. It really doesn't get any better than that.

Pattern, Knit Leia Wig [Etsy]

There is a reason why you never see extraterrestrials fumbling to prevent bulky umbrellas from flying away in a rainstorm.

UFO Cap main page

According to a release from the National Science Foundation, which partially funded the research:

Zhong Lin Wang and collaborators Xudong Wang and Yong Qin have made more than 200 of the fiber nanogenerators. Each is tested on an apparatus that uses a spring and wheel to move one fiber against the other. The fibers are rubbed together for up to 30 minutes to test their durability and power production.

The researchers have measured current of about four nanoamperes and output voltage of about four millivolts from a nanogenerator that included two fibers that were each one centimeter long. With a much improved design, Wang estimates that a square meter of fabric made from the special fibers could theoretically generate as much as 80 milliwatts of power.

So far, there is only one wrinkle in the fabric, so to speak - washing it. Zinc oxide is sensitive to moisture, so in real shirts or jackets, the nanowires would have to be protected from the effects of the washing machine.

Nanowire Shirt [NSF]

It also means you can probably get a faux fur coat made to look like Sulley from Monsters, Inc. Images by Lama Concept

Lama Collection via Transmaterial

At least the pre-torn skirts and tops will save the cyborgs a lot of time, when they catch up with you. And it's good that one skirt says "CANNIBAL" on it, lest your captors forget what they are.

Meanwhile, self-proclaimed postapocalyptic designer Yeohlee Teng unveiled her fall 2008 collection last month, and it actually does look like stuff that might offer some protection from falling satellites and spattering monster blood. Could this be a rare instance where mainstream fashion is actually smarter than subculture wear? Look at this gallery and decide for yourself: Yeohlee photos by Scott Gries/Getty Images for IMG.

Image by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP.

Photos by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images. [WWD]

Here's the scary athletic shoe model, which you can use to crush androids underfoot or spring to your job at the nanofactory.

And here is all the proof you need — other than watching Z-coil's instructional video — that these shoes are truly scientific and certainly cutting-edge. I know Alvin "Future Shock" Toffler said the future would be psychotic, but I don't remember him ever mentioning "orthotic" . . .

Zcoil [company site]

This is a gold face mask. It really has no purpose other than costing $105 and looking like something you'd get done on Raisa the pleasure planet from Star Trek. AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying.

UK Streetwear brand Addict have teamed up with Lucasfilm to produce exclusive boxed tees depicting three of the most iconic characters from the original Star Wars Trilogy! Called the Icons Series, it's a one-off set of officially licensed tees illustrated by artist Mitch, known by many for his work in the music industry — Amp Fiddler, Bugz in the Attic, Incognito, The Bees, and Howie B are just a few of the musicians he's worked with.

As seen here, for the Star Wars Icons Series, the artist's signature style accurately captures the essence of Boba Fett — not surprising, since the artist counts Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie among his earliest influences... And like fine art, the t-shirts come packaged in an illustrated custom box — no cheap metal hangers here.

Here's the official episode summary. I love that she's a conservative talk-show host when she's not dressing like a freak:

THE GREEN ARROW AND BLACK CANARY BATTLE IN SMALLVILLE — While secretly working for Oliver (guest star Justin Hartley), Chloe (Allison Mack) intercepts one of Lex's (Michael Rosenbaum) project files, but she is attacked by the Black Canary (guest star Alaina Huffman), a mystery woman with a subsonic cry. Dinah Lance, Black Canary's alter ego, is a conservative talk show host who is working at the Daily Planet and clashes with Lois (Erica Durance).

Photo by Getty Images.

On her web site, she has sixty-some photos of herself dressed as brides from different ethnic groups. Here, she takes a break from her anthropological self-fashioning to become an alien. Isn't she pretty? Makes me wanna marry an alien too. Image by Kimiko Yoshida

Kimiko Yoshida main page via Pink Tentacle

They write:

The Hexagram shirt was inspired by and conceived to fit into the dystopic universe of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, a novel depicting what the world would have been like during the 1960s, had the Axis won WWII.

In the book, the U.S. west coast is a colony of Japan, whose rule and influence has permeated and dominated Californian society for years. The Book of Changes has become the mainstream method, for Japanese and Californian people alike, to take important decisions in life.

Whenever someone has a choice to make, that person takes out three little coins that are shaken and tossed on a surface several times, the resulting heads and tails data is then translated into one of the 64 hexagrams that comprise the Book of Changes.

This and other works by Chalayan are currently on view at the Space for your Future exhibit in Tokyo. Images by Getty

Hussein Chalayan [Designer home page]

Wanna get married on a different planet? Here are some bridal trains that won't trip you up in zero-g.

These designs are perfect for those going on the interplanetary party ship.

Rocketplane's holding competitions in the US and Europe starting next year, so stay tuned for some more space age-y designs. Images courtesy of Chuck Lauer

Nicole Kidman image by PictureMedia/INFPhoto. Balenciaga Spring 2008 photos by Style.com. [Dallas Morning News]

Dale is possessed! We have to save her! But we also have to save somebody else! OMG, the nerdy Zarkov is rolling on drugged tea and that's so wacky! Luckily, the hardcore assassin Baylin of Mongo was there to remind us that lurking somewhere under the pink froo-froos and the goofy acting and the 1940s plot lines there lies another show — perhaps in an alternate dimension — that is funny and playfully subversive. I just love her deadpan delivery in this clip. After Dale vamps and Flash himboes it up with his "Gee isn't Dale acting funny?" routine, her dry response is perfect: "I do not understand women." Oh Baylin, we'd help you understand if you'd only give us half a chance!

People tuning into ISS action will also see the Russian Orlan, a suit which has been in continuous use since 1977. Now that the Cold War is over, the two former superpowers can fight about whether it's better to outfit its astronauts in retro-70s gear, or retro-80s. Here are the dirty details about the contestants on the ISS' next top space suit.

•The EMU is of course white, and white looks great with those Reeboks that have suddenly come back into style. Score one for the EMU, which takes an early lead.

•However, the EMU is time-consuming to put on and infamously requires the Maximum Absorbency Garment (MAG), or space diaper, and we all know what prolonged wearing of one of those leads to. Potentially high humiliation factor forces us to deduct half a point from the EMU, which is still ahead by 0.5, because the Orlan has ZERO points. BUT...

• The Orlan-M model, by contrast with the EMU, is entered via a rear hatch: you just step right in and close the back door, pop your head into the helmet and head for the airlock! Unfortunately, it looks as if you're climbing inside something that runs on steam like this one (above). But what the hell, let's give the Orlan a point for ease of entry.

Orlan inches ahead by a slim half-point margin!

•Both suits are hard-soft hybrids, which means that they're easier to move in than the earliest generation of hard-shell suits. They are not, however, a significant advance over the Apollo-Soyuz designs. That will come when we start to see the next generation of skintight unpressurized suits, the snakey Hedi Slimane kind (below) that Val Kilmer and Benjamin Bratt wore in and that Tom Sizemore bulged out of in the surprisingly not-completely-sucky Red Planet. This one is a tie.

Orlan is still in the lead!

•All Russian space tech looks like hell and might get you killed at any time, but it lasts forever. Russian Space Agency design is rugged yet dangerous. Thus, the Orlan adds a point for the thrill factor.

Orlan 2.5, EMU 0.5. C'mon EMU, catch up!

•Each EMU sports $40,000 custom-made gloves. The Orlan, as one might expect, contains no bespoke elements. One point to the EMU for each glove, which means we're now tied.

Tiebreaker: You're a space tourist on the International Space Station. It's time for your $7 million space walk. You can choose between the EMU and the Orlan. Which will it be?

Newman was able to do away with most of that dead weight, thanks to her studies of how people move in outer space. Among other things, she's studied ways to modify beds and treadmills in space, so astronauts don't lose so much muscle mass and bone density. So the revolutionary BioSuit uses mechanical counterpressure (from tight inner layers) instead of gas to keep the suit pressurized. That way, the next generation of space explorers will look slinky and move easy. Image courtesy of MIT.

Space Age Spacesuit [Helena Independent Record]