Flash Gordon to Hit SciFi in August

Flash Gordon, WikipediaAll I can say is that it has got to be better than ‘Buck Rogers’ was in the ’70s. I remember my father showing my copies of the comic strip from the 1930’s and was quite looking forward to the TV series. What showed up on the family TV was not what I had expected. Ok, I liked it but I was only seven. What did I know back then.
I do remember the Flash Gordon cartoon series that was in the Saturday morning line up. That was pretty good, I liked the idea of the the planet Mongo marauding around the galaxy plundering and conquering as they went. It stared off well but started to take on the suckage as they dumbed it down and tried to make it funny.

The 22-hour series, a contemporary take on the popular comic strip franchise, is slated for an August premiere. It will feature Johnson (Smallvill) as space traveler Flash Gordon embarking on all-new adventures.

Info about the series has been a bit thin. I found a press release about the production and a tiny remark that the sets for the planet Mongo are going to be redressed sets from the upcoming TV series ‘Tin Man’. ‘Tin Man‘ is a re-imagining of the ‘Wizard of Oz’. I’m not even going to go there, I never fully recovered from a bout of ‘The Wiz‘.

Johnson rockets with Sci Fi ‘Flash’

LolCat Builder

My very own LolcatWhile not having much to do with technology or science, it has everything to do with the Internet. Trust me, it’s one of those ‘meme‘ things the ‘net is full of these days. The whole ‘lolcat‘ thing had me confused as hell, I was wondering where all of the "I’m in ur [object], [present tense/derived nominal] ur [object]" cat photos were coming from. Turns out many of them might have been created on this site. Choose an image (or upload one of your own like I did), type in some l33t text and select the style you want. Preview and save. Go make your own, share them with your bewildered friends and smirk at your l33tness.

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LolCat Builder
Massive collection of photos all search able via tags on I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

Handheld Terahertz Device Wins Prize

Handheld 'T-ray' device earns first ever lamelson-Rensselaer student prizeI for one can’t wait to get a terahertz dev kit. How much fun could you have with that? I’m talking real X-Ray Specs!

Schulkin’s “Mini-Z” is dramatically smaller and lighter than any previous terahertz device, and it already has proven its ability to detect cracks in space shuttle foam, image tumors in breast tissue, and spot counterfeit watermarks on paper currency. The system, which weighs less than five pounds and fits snugly in a briefcase, could open the door to a wide range of applications in homeland security, biomedical imaging, and nondestructive testing of industrial components.

Campus.News: Online News for the Rensselaer Community – Handheld “T-ray” Device Earns First-Ever Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize

Clever Soylent Greeen Prank

Soylent Green is People!This is just brilliant. I see a lot of clever things on the ‘Net but this one is funny as hell.

So here’s the deal. Soylent Green is people! Someone’s got to tell them. In this age of disposable prepackaged everything, we are getting further and further withdrawn from the actual sources of the products we consume on a daily basis. This is particularly what interested me about the prospects of putting my "additional labeling" on foodstuffs.

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the WAREHOUSE

R/C Helecopter With Rockets!

ROV with teethOne of the captions on the page says it all:

Unmanned Attack Helicopter, Ver. 2, 2004
Gas Powered Radio Control Helicopter modified to carry and remotely fire model rockets

Oh yeah… This would liven up the company picnic don’t you think? I wonder how he managed to ignite the rocket without throwing the chopper into a nasty spin? Any one else have something like this? BB gun mounted on a glider maybe?

The artist also has some very impressive sculptures listed in his online portfolio. I like the ‘Bronze Skull’ ones myself.

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The Sculpture of Christopher Conte
Bronze Skull prototype