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Comic-Con 09 happened recently, and while much of the coverage (as far as we could tell) was devoted to attractive women in cosplay costumes, the annual extravaganza of all things nerd-tastic had plenty of poorly costumed attendees too. Just look at Costume Pop’s hilarious listicle of 12 Costume Fails from Comic Con, like this fella [...]

Some cupcakes are just pretty baked goods, and some are delicious, spectacular, nerdy cupcakes (or “nerdcakes”). Topless Robot found two dozen of such nerdcakes for this photo-op featuring 24 Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes. Now we’re going to spend the rest of Sunday eating cupcakes and watching old sci-fi movies and shows.

What’s a good sci-fi or fantasy series without a fascinating, deeply rich urban locale to serve as its backdrop? Batman’s got Gotham, Superman has Metropolis, and any comparable franchise that plans to stick around would do good to create comparable settings from which subplots and supporting characters can emerge to provide new narratives and continuing [...]

Really, we’ll stop posting graphic design projects by Dan Meth as soon as he stops coming up with brilliant ideas like his “Emomelon Days” music video or his 21 Movie Trilogies, but for now we bring you another graphisticle from the mind of Meth. The latest attempts to chart the confusing journeys through time of [...]

So the new Star Trek movie that opens today is completely predicated on one very popular theory of time travel, which holds that by going back into the past we inevitably change the present that we’ve left behind. This means that time travelers can abandon any dreams of clean, no strings attached time travel, because [...]

Spock gets all the love (literally, in the new Star Trek movie that comes out tomorrow), and he’s clearly the more interesting protagonist for costume parties. That said, Kirk offers some more nuanced challenges: the swagger, the charming smile, the perfect coif, the confident and slightly sassy stance. In honor of the comparatively few who’ve [...]

Funny how we can invent all kinds of alien species, evil supervillains, mysterious dark forces and such, but when it comes to great sci-fi baddies nothing’s much more effective than an evil corporation. io9 rounds up some 15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction – including, of course, Blade Runner’s Tyrell Corporation, Weyland-Yutani of Alien franchise [...]

Funny how true stories that seem ripped from some the most fantastical fictions eventually get recycled into sci-fi fodder. Such is the case with the story of Titanic, which io9 charts through some 10 re-incarnations. We did find one entry missing from their listicle of 10 Unsinkable Sci-Fi Stories About Titanic, Ben Stiller and Vince [...]

Life, as they say, imitates art, and if there’s one art form that seems uncannily skilled at predicting future technologies it’s probably literature (sorry film fans, but Steven Spielberg couldn’t have existed without Philip K. Dick). As things accelerate (and books become re-shapped by new technologies like the Kindle), it’s helpful to keep turning to [...]

As Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis taught us, some empires are time-biased and others are space-biased, depending on their preferred mass medium of control. Well, he probably never dreamed things like interplanetary space travel, teleportation, telekinetics and instant cross-universe communication would figure into the evolution of empires. But then he probably wasn’t a huge sci-fi [...]