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Weird News Weekly: 25th May 2009

Kat — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:16:00 +0000

Kevin Costner eat your heart out. Astronauts have turned urine into water. Yum. READ MORE The WOW pod, complete with viking horns and toilet. READ MORE Can robots ever be like humans? Of course, haven’t you seen Bicentennial Man… They’re annoying and played by Robin Williams. READ Read more

Weird News Weekly: 10th May 2009

Kat — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:27:44 +0000

New tourist destination: Riverside, Iowa. Visit the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. READ MORE The best weird news ever. Superheroes are real and fighting crime. READ MORE Just as good. We are one step closer to invisibility cloaks. READ MORE The age of robot soldiers is upon us! Come Read more

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Kat — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:12:40 +0000

‘It is a truth universally accepted that a zombie in possession of brains, must be in want of more brains.’ So begins the immoral, the blasphemous, and enormously entertaining Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Graheme-Smith (and of course, Jane Austen). If the original story wasn’t Read more

What to do in case of a swine flu apocalypse…

Kat — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:51:49 +0000

First there was SARS, then there was bird flu, now there is swine flu. For those of us a little scared, we’re running around wearing mask and avoiding pork. The World Health Organisation has recommended we start stockpiling food. George Orwell’s Animal Farm has warned us for Read more

Weird News Weekly: 2nd May 2009

Kat — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:08:24 +0000

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back, with the announcement of a new live action movie to be released in 2011. Cowabunga, dudes! READ MORE Scientists are having a hard time trying to fit hobbits into the evolution tree. Hobbits you say? The real ones in Indonesia. READ MORE Robot Read more

Knowing

Kat — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:20:46 +0000

The world is going to end and Nic Cage is the only one who can stop it. So says Knowing, the new(ish) film by Alex Proyas. Knowing is an odd sort of film. Some reviewers have torn it to shreds, others have praised it as a great example of science fiction. It sits somewhere between the two; Read more

Weird News Weekly: 19th April 2009

Kat — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:23:36 +0000

Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain was declared adults only on Amazon this week. Because there’s two men in it wearing provocative cowboy hats and traipsing round the mountains. Why else would something be restricted? Oh, yeah, they’re gay. Ish. READ MORE MIT nerds have Read more