A little bit of fun news before
we kick off This Week in Geekdom: The Care and Feeding of Nerds family got a
little bit bigger today with the addition of Serenity. The GIR and I have been
considering pet ownership for the past few years and earlier today Serenity
selected us as her new owners. We look forward to many cat-assisted rolls in
future gaming sessions.
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| Our new Calico-class cat-ship |
Science/Technology
Interstellar space travel just
got a little bit closer to reality thanks to a 19-year-old Egyptian physics
student. The student, Aisha Mustafa, has patented this quantum propulsion system.
Microsoft has confirmed that they
will be publicly discussing the next generation operating system, currently
known only by its codename 'Threshold', during its 2014 BUILD conference in
April.
Ok, it's 2014 and we don't yet have a
hoverboard. But, we're reasonably close with this.
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| Mmmm...delicious batteries |
Cheap renewable energy. At
present, the best you can feasibly get is a combination of two of those three
things. This team of Harvard researchers aims to change that with their
quionone-powered organic battery.
A lot of interesting, eyebrow-raising things came out of
this year's CES. We had Michael Bay having a full-on meltdown, we had insanely gorgeous gaming rigs, and we had renewed claims that the death of the PC is at hand. Do you agree?
Comics
Sometimes playing around with
narratives to create alternate timelines is a fun, interesting way to expand a
franchise. For Dark Horse, there are definite limits to this sort of
recombination when you're working with something as weighty as Star Wars. Read
here for a description of the graphic novels that almost were, featuring a Sith Leia and Luke ruling the galaxy together.
Movies
This past week was chock-full of
news (or as close as we can get to news during this early developmental stage)
concerning the upcoming Star Wars films. Leland Chee, the so-called Keeper of
the Holocron for all things LucasFilm, confirmed that a 'story group' had been formed to determine once and for all what pieces of the Star Wars universe will be canon, and which will be shunted out the proverbial airlock.
Speaking of Star Wars movies, it
is official: there will be an all Boba Fett spinoff movie.
Is the upcoming Superman vs.
Batman movie going to wreak even more havoc with comic canon? Actually, it
seems like the response on that is probably not.
TV (Special all Dr. Who Edition)
As Whovians prepare to move on to the 12th incarnation of
the Doctor, Den of Geek drew up this list of questions that have gone
unanswered during the reign of Matt Smith.
A double-dose of fun for Whovians this week. Here are all 50
years of space-time travel in one handy, interactive infographic.
And last, but not least, here are the first production stills and notes from the set of Dr. Who and our first glimpse of Peter Capaldi
in the title role.
Games
Were you one of those burned by
the recent rash of technical bruhaha maligning the game CONSORTIUM? Well, Inspirational Games and Steam
would like to apologize for that with this, one of the most sincere mea culpas to have graced the internet to date.
General Awesomeness
Earlier this month, seven-year-old Sophie wrote to the
researchers at the CSIRO asking why they had not been able to produce any
dragons with their efforts. Initially, the scientists sent their apologies at
this grievous oversight. On Friday the CSIRO sent her this.
Oh infographics, how we love you. Click here to see such an illustration that captures all zombies across all canons. Want a copy of your
own? Visit the artist's Kickstarter page.
Fans have waited over two decades to see this, but the first official Simpsons Lego playset will soon be available for sale.
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