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Zachary Quinto’s Trek To Fame
Zachary Quinto is in the rare position to have two equally anticipated projects. Trekkies and general sci-fi fans want to see his take on the young Spock in J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek, but also want to know what's up with Sylar in the new season of Heroes.
Click on link above for full interview. Zachary Quinto is in the rare position to have two equally anticipated projects. Trekkies and general sci-fi fans want to see his take... more -
The 10th Annual Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant
For the last ten years, Star Trek fans have gotten together in Atlanta, USA to choose Miss Klingon Empire. It's much like any other beauty pageant, but with more latex headpieces. For the last ten years, Star Trek fans have gotten together in Atlanta, USA to choose Miss Klingon Empire. It's much like any oth... more
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Star Trek Disney Palin
It's Friday and its time for Current Virals. Doesn't get much better than this...
To watch the full versions of all five videos just click on the links in the comments section below. It's Friday and its time for Current Virals. Doesn't get much better than this... ... more -
Star Trek as The A-Team
Two of the best things ever made in one chewy package.
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Star Trek's Holodeck Becoming a Reality
Micoy has created a 3D technology that lets you walk and interact in a 3D virtual environment, bringing us ever closer to the elusive holodeck. This is a demo from TechCrunch50.
Part of the podcast for You 2.0, a documentary on life hacking.
http://www.lifehackingmovie.com Micoy has created a 3D technology that lets you walk and interact in a 3D virtual environment, bringing us ever closer to the elusive ... more -
Shatner vs. Abrams
In a recent article Director JJ Abrams talked about the reasons why William Shatner is not in the new Star Trek Movie. William Shatner responds to the statements in this video. In a recent article Director JJ Abrams talked about the reasons why William Shatner is not in the new Star Trek Movie. William Shatner... more
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Dwarf planet given Hawaiian name "Haumea"
A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system is being given a Hawaiian name: Haumea, the goddess of earth and fertility.
Haumea's name was approved Wednesday by the International Astronomical Union in Paris. It is the solar system's fifth dwarf planet, in the same category and region as Pluto.
Unlike other round planets, Haumea is shaped like a fat cigar or an elongated egg. Astronomers think its shape comes from its rapid rotation, which could have been caused by a collision with another object billions of years ago.
Haumea is orbited by two moons, Hiiaka and Namaka, named after two children of the goddess. The discovery of Haumea was announced in mid-2005, and it was previously known as 2003 EL61. A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system is being given a Hawaiian name: Haumea, the goddess of earth and fertility. ... more -
DIY Knife Saber Effect WMM
This is my last Windows Movie Maker tutorial. For now on, I'll be doing other things, but if you need help on using WMM, by all means ask me. I will be glad to help, even if you aren't subscribed. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to pull of a light saber effect using Windows Movie Maker and Gimp. Thank you for all of those who have watched, rated, commented, and subcribed. BTW, that is not not me swinging the stick around; the footage if from the famous youtube video "Star Wars Kid". I do NOT own the music or the "Starwars Kid" video. Rate and comment if you want, but remember.....the kitty's live is in my hands! lol XD This is my last Windows Movie Maker tutorial. For now on, I'll be doing other things, but if you need help on using WMM, by all m... more
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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 18th September 2008
Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
More Joy news.
Falling in front of the television.
Everyone is equal.
Belushis Bar in Hammersmith, London.
It all falls into place.
911.
Not enough time for any music.
No time for football.
More on pet food.
A team of people.
Dogs names.
Would a doctor tell you if you were overweight ?
Rude down the phone.
Where can we all meet ?
A new Saturday & Monday job, and you're very welcome to come and say hello.
We all need something to do.
Ross. Nice boy. LOL.
When I last went to Florida.
More advice for Matty.
My friends ears are sorted.
Bad memory.
Waiting for marmalade.
My drawers might break.
Throw me over his shoulder.
An active person.
No more itchy ears.
I finish William Shatners Autobiography.
Too many Amy's !
Someone has credit card trouble when on holiday.
What is happiness.
Better hours.
Other podcasts.
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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Star Trek's Mr Sulu marries long-term partner
Original Star Trek actor and gay activist George Takei ('Mr Sulu') has married his partner of 21 years in a ceremony in Los Angeles.
Takei, 71, and Brad Altman, 54, had almost 200 guests, including Star Trek castmates Nichelle Nichols ('Uhura') and Walter Koenig ('Chekhov') who acted as best man.
The couple wrote their own vows, reports the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Holding hands with Altman, Takei told him: "I vow to care for you as you've cared for me … and to love you as my husband and the only man in my life."
The priest finally pronounced them "spouses for life." Original Star Trek actor and gay activist George Takei ('Mr Sulu') has married his partner of 21 years in a ceremony in Los ... more -
J.J. Abrams on TV’s Fringe
TV hitmaker J.J. Abrams has a new series premiering this Tuesday (September 9) on Fox. Fringe is about the weekly investigations of a trio of paranormal investigators –– an FBI agent and a father/son science team to be precise. It begins with a plane crash (that's worked out well for other shows), and reveals deeper conspiracies as the subsequent investigation unfolds.
A sci-fi fan, as evidenced by the previous TV shows he developed (Lost and Alias) and by the fact he was picked to direct the new Star Trek movie (XI), Abrams accepts the legacy of shows like the The X-Files that precede Fringe. There's more than just that swimming around in his mind though.
"I love The Twilight Zone and Nightstalker and Cronenberg films and Crichton movies," Abrams said. "All these things connect in some way and X-Files is right there at the top of the list. It wasn't like, 'Okay, let's do The X Files again.' It was, 'What kind of show is something we would tune in to see?' I thought we would get slammed doing the David Cronenberg/Altered States stuff because for me that was always something I was obsessed with when I was growing up."
Week to week, the show is in the hands of head writes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and producers Jeff Pinkner and Bryan Burk. It's Abrams' name telling people to watch though, and he took a break from editing Star Trek to try to explain Fringe. Like the best episodes of Lost though, it only leaves us with more questions....
Click link above for full interview (J.J. also reveals more about the new Star Trek movie). TV hitmaker J.J. Abrams has a new series premiering this Tuesday (September 9) on Fox. Fringe is about the weekly investigations of a ... more -
United Kingdom Talk Saturday 30th August 2008
Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
A little job in France.
Am I to be bent ?
Who owes a penny ?
Pam Ann.
Orlando.
Uri Geller.
People don't give way.
Someone's lost a laptop.
Star Trek & Dallas are coming.
How China has changed.
Cutting the coupons out.
A new mobile phone on the way.
The wig is on the wall.
Computer help desks.
Can you withhold money from a beggar in all cases, or do you sometimes give in ?
An electric shaver.
Tiny has trouble walking.
Don't worry too much about age Matty.
None of that language here.
Cats are daft.
"Christopher".
Happy birthday Stirland.
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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Star Trek blade seized in knife amnesty
This 5ft blade was handed over to police in the latest knife amnesty being promoted by the police. A police spokesman in Gloucester said "It is a particularly nasty weapon that can, literally, take someone's head off. We are very glad it is off the streets and we want more weapons handed in."
They are hoping that the picture will help to publicise the amnesty and make sure more knives will be handed in, do you think it will work? This 5ft blade was handed over to police in the latest knife amnesty being promoted by the police. A police spokesman in Gloucester sa... more -
Forget Seinfeld, Microsoft, you want the two Coreys
Thursday, we learned that Jerry Seinfeld, one of the funniest men on the planet, will be the new spokesman in an ad campaign for Microsoft's Vista operating system. Can Seinfeld steal some of the marketing thunder from Apple's hipster Macintosh dude and the poor, shlubby Windows fella who clearly needs to get his suit tailored?
Well, as our readers have noted, there's a bit of irony to this, since many of us recall that Seinfeld was always using a Mac on his '90s sitcom. That got us thinking: Should Microsoft hire someone not so clearly playing both sides of the fence? Thankfully, our readers had some terrific ideas.
• Our first commenter, "J-Hawaii," had a good suggestion, a Borg drone from Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, I'm not sure this is the best representative of Microsoft's business-first attitude. While we often think of the Borg as joyless automatons of a conformist culture, the best-known Borg, Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager, added new femininity to cyber-kinetic life forms. Even the creepy Borg Queen in the movie Star Trek: First Contact had a certain je ne sais quoi about her.
Could a Borg offer the first sex appeal to a Microsoft ad campaign since the Rolling Stones were singing Start Me Up for Windows 95?
• Commentator "Dirk VanNerden," along with many others, suggests Steve Carell and the rest of the cast of The Office. Makes sense; you've got vaguely unhappy office folk stuck in workplace purgatory in Scranton, Penn. (I grew up about 20 miles from Scranton, so trust me: "purgatory" is a nice way to put it.) Total Microsoft stereotype. Nails it.
However, a Microsoft fan might point out that the cast of a Carell movie, The 40-Year-Old Virgin could work just as well for Apple. You know, gadget heads stuck forever in some sort of adolescent, video-game-playing, pot-smoking purgatory.
• Homer Simpson, Charlie Brown, Rodney Dangerfield, Jason Alexander (who played hapless "George" on Seinfeld), and other people doomed to never get it right (unless they do the opposite of what they'd normally do, like George did): Personally, I think the diabolical, nuclear-plant-owning "Mr. Burns" on The Simpsons might be a better stand-in for a company that throws out a profit of a few billion dollars every quarter, despite the Vista follies. But, hey, that's just me.
• "Cafteach" suggests the great comedian and San Franciscan Robin Williams. Makes a lot of sense: Like Microsoft, Mork was at the height of his powers in the '90s, winning an Oscar for his performance in Good Will Hunting. And like Microsoft, he's laid some eggs in recent years. Did anyone even see RV? That said, he was still awfully funny as a penguin's voice in Happy Feet (or was that a puffin?)
• "Theoscnet" offers the cruelest cut of all: The two Coreys, "Corey Feldman and Corey Whoever..." It's Corey Haim, Theo. I looked it up for you. It's been a long time since we got the double-Corey treatment in '80s classics such as License to Drive and The Lost Boys. (But wasn't Keifer Sutherland really scary as a Jim Morrison-inspired vampire?)
The last we saw the two Coreys, they were puffy 30-somethings starring in The Two Coreys--"a look at the lives of former child stars Corey Feldman and Corey Haim living together as adults," as The Internet Movie Database puts it.
Microsoft...a metaphor for washed-up child stars? No way, but it's fair to say the company is starting to look a little puffy and out of fashion in its middle age, as our readers are quick to point out. Thursday, we learned that Jerry Seinfeld, one of the funniest men on the planet, will be the new spokesman in an ad campaign for Micro... more -
Engage the cloaking device
Fantasies, legends, and science fiction stories are crowded with examples of the desire to become invisible, from Greek myths (Perseus hides under an invisibility cloak to sneak up on the sleeping monster Medusa and kill her) to H.G. Wells’s thriller “The Invisible Man” to Star Trek’s Romulan “cloaking device” to invisibility cloaks worn by Frodo and Harry Potter.
Now in two serious scientific papers jointly released by the journals Nature and Science this week, the possibility of making objects vanish – at least to the spectrum of ordinary visible light – appears to be becoming more likely.
Scientists at the University of California describe two kinds of tiny nanoscale structures, called metamaterials, that have shown a “negatively refractive index” – in essence, have the ability to bend light, in the way that looking at an object in water can appear to make it larger or contorted. A release from Nature notes:
Although invisibility is the most attention-grabbing application, metamaterials like this have many more immediate uses in optical technology, for example as powerful new lenses or for carrying light-based signals around microchips.
Previous research has suggested that invisibility might be possible in two dimensions. But the current research proposes a technique that could cloak a three-dimensional object such as a human or a ship.
The AP explains in simple terms how the device might work:
People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.
Britain’s The Times says the research is another example of how nanotechnology is beginning to impact scientific research:
No such material occurs naturally and it is only in the past few years that nano-scale engineering, manipulating matter at the level of atoms and molecules, has advanced sufficiently to give scientists the chance to create them. Fantasies, legends, and science fiction stories are crowded with examples of the desire to become invisible, from Greek myths (Perseus... more -
Star Trek Apartment
Tony Alleyne in England converted his apartment into a replica of a the Star Trek Voyager. It's for sale (or it was recently) and plenty of time and effort has gone into this mans castle. Tony Alleyne in England converted his apartment into a replica of a the Star Trek Voyager. It's for sale (or it was recently) and... more
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Cloaking Device Closer to Reality
Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.
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Scotty from Star Trek doesn't make it to the final frontier......
James Doohan, who played Scotty in the much loved Star Trek, was all set to finally reach space this weekend until the rocket carrying his ashes blew up over the Pacific ocean before reaching the final frontier. James Doohan, who played Scotty in the much loved Star Trek, was all set to finally reach space this weekend until the rocket carrying... more
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Don't Deport Me Scotty
See what happens when a permanent member of a popular space crew finds his status is in question. In any galaxy, when we deny due process and human rights to some, we put all of our freedoms at risk.
www.breakthrough.tv See what happens when a permanent member of a popular space crew finds his status is in question. In any galaxy, when we deny due proc... more
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