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#twilght

First Ever Eclipse Scene Starts The Vampire Werewolf War

We're excited for David "30 Days Of Night" Slade's Twilight movie Eclipse. Why? Because it will be a film that isn't full of long glances and Bella scream-crying-lip-biting. It's all about action, plus crazy Jane's back. More »

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By Meredith Woerner

#robots

Swiss Autopsy Robot Comes Online

Virtobot may be helping humanity now, but it'll know all our weaknesses when Skynet achieves sentience. That's because it's the world's first autopsy robot - and it can examine a dead body inside and out without ever lifting a scalpel. More »

06:30 AM

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By Cyriaque Lamar

Roklimber 06:16 AM

Iron-nitrogen compound forms strongest magnet known
[www.physorg.com]

18% more magnetic than previously thought possible. Great for supervillainy applications.

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'Cold Fusion' Moves Closer to Mainstream Acceptance
[www.sciencedaily.com]

Physicists warming up to cold fusion? I'll believe it when I see it working.

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#morningspoilers

A Predators Reveal, Plus Transformers 3 Dinobots And The Secrets Of Hit Girl!

Robert Rodriguez explains the deeper meaning of Predators, Joshua Duhamel talks Transformers 3 characters, and Kick-Ass' screenwriter reveals Hit-Girl's freakiest lines. And find out what to expect from Caprica's midseason finale. Plus Lost, Hot Tub, Fringe, Chuck, Supernatural and SGU. More »

06:00 AM

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By Alasdair Wilkins

Cptsassy 05:27 AM

I have a proposition:
1. You listen to Us and Them by Pink Floyd
2. You come back to me and explain to me why it shouldn't be the music pumped out on repeat when we colonize the moon.

and finally...

3. Turn it up to 11...?

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AlexKap 04:31 AM

Mutant toads turned into art:

[www.artscatalyst.org]

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EdificeComplex 03/21/10

I can't sleep, so I've been surfing the wilds of the internets. In my travels I came across this, which really doesn't need an explanation.

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#gallery

V Gallery

03/21/10

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Supernatural Gallery

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Beastly Gallery

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#hottubtimemachine

Hot Tub Time Machine Gallery

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#movies

The Brazilian SciFi Short "Analog" Is Minimalist Cyberweirdness

This creepy-cool trailer for EBBËTO's 25-minute-long film Analog is an agoraphobe's worst nightmare -a machine keeps a man alive during a deep space journey. Unfortunately, the machine begins to reassess its programming, and a lot of symbolic oddness precipitates. More »

03/21/10

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By Cyriaque Lamar

Patrick Kelso 03/21/10

I've been itching to find two movies I saw in the either the late 80s or early 90s with my dad that I can't find now.

The first is about people from the future who are saving people meant to die in plane crashes in the past by transporting them to the future. Ultimately someone causes a paradox and they all escape (to ancient Egypt if I'm not mistaken) It ends with a computer voice quoting Churchill. "This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning".

The second was about a time traveling cop who comes back to present day somewhere (guessing new york or LA) to find an escaped killer, all I remember about it was he had x-ray goggles and when he needed money he purchased a scratchie after offering the girl in the newsagent half if he won and using the goggles to find a winning ticket.

I was posatitive the movie was called Nick of Time but IMDB disagrees.

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Bill-Lee 03/21/10

Total Recall used to be one of my favorite movies...then SyFy ran it into the ground with repeated showings. They seem to show it at least twice a month.

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#television

Spider-Man Battles Samurai In 1970s TV Stills

In the Seventies, The Amazing Spider-Man aired on CBS, Nicholas Hammond was Peter Parker, and the show's theme song was pornoriffic. Take a trip down memory lane with these photographs from an era when Spidey fought crime in his PJs. More »

03/21/10

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By Cyriaque Lamar

#superart

What If Superheroes Were Elements?

It's Marvel's Avengers as you've never seen them before... Namely, as abstract personifications of elements from the periodic table. Artist Das Chupa is the genius behind this version, and he's given Superman the same treatment here. [Zero Lives]

03/21/10

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By Graeme McMillan

geesejuggler 03/21/10

Not entirely sci-fi but the website 30 Ninjas made a list of the top ten fighting style. Be warned: Watching these scene will make you look up more awesome fight scenes. I would also the fight from the movie Gorgeous (Chan vs. Allen).

[30ninjas.com]

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When Happy Endings Seem Important, After All

Here's my terrible, heretical admission about the last season of Lost: I enjoy the flash-sideways. No, wait, that's not it. What I meant to say was: I don't care if they answer all of the questions about mythology or not. More »

03/21/10

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By Graeme McMillan

#china

Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Google will likely be pulling the plug on Google.cn by the end of the month. According to the web search giant, China's stringent censorship and the hacking of Gmail accounts have driven Google to relinquish 35.6% of China's search market. More »

03/21/10

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By Cyriaque Lamar

#conceptart

Old-Timey Predator Will Joyride Into Your Heart

I say old bean, is that a Yautja on a penny-farthing velocipede? By gum, I haven't beheld such a spectacle since eleventy-twelve! And lo! Our pedal-pushing intergalactic sportsmen totes one of those newfangled heliumized air bladders! What delicious farce! [Gavwoodhouse's Deviant Art page via Superpunch]

03/21/10

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By Cyriaque Lamar