Linkpharm:
- Poppy Z. Brite’s 13 reasons why New Orleans is still not okay.
- How to Write Bad Science Fiction…is actually sort of a bad article. Not a single example (except the casually namedropped War of the Worlds and Star Wars. And I don’t buy the central conceit that “there hasn’t been a decent work of science fiction since the original screenplay for Planet of the Apes!” [via]
- The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions of the Future (And Why They’ll Never Happen) [via]
- So what’s worse for Kid Nation? If it’s real, or fake?
- Planting trees for every book you own? That’ll get expensive. [via]
- Remi doesn’t get Chumby. Me neither, frankly.
- 25 Worlds Weirdest Animals [via]
- On the down side, Jules Verne has been horribly translated. On the plus side, at least he wasn’t the awful anti-Semite. [via]
- Are directors (in this case Brian De Palma) now re-making their own movies?
These Superman and Darth Vader laptops might be pretty neat…if they didn’t look like cheap tie-ins with terrible graphics. [via]
As with everything else he’s done, De Palma is just ripping off Hitchcock again by remaking one of his own movies.