The European Space Agency is apparently looking to volunteer people for a space mission to Mars. (via inferior 4+1)

WFMU has a lengthy post (with lots of nice pictures) about David T. Sims, who constructs elaborate costumes.

Celestial Intervention Agency Podcast has an episode discussing their favorite SF television shows, and why some of the better ones inevitably get canceled too early.

J.G. Ballard Quote:

I do think that novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver...

Borges Quote:

We drew our heavy revolvers (suddenly in the dream there were revolvers) and exultantly killed the gods.

Chan Wook Park's new film I'm A Cyborg But That's OK debuts in New York tomorrow.

Joss Whedon Quote:

Remember that they tried to kill us. They did kill us. And here we are. We have done the Impossible, and that makes us mighty.

The Flash died, and the old one came back.

Oh yeah. And this.

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