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By: Emily How to make your own Star Wars rings. Who wouldn’t want their face to be lovingly cushioned by this plush Sarlacc pitlow? When you lay your head down, you’ll certainly also want to be cuddling your felted Jabba the Hutt doll. Apparently, the latest project from the team who created Ico and Shadow [...]

For the first time in my life, I am canceling something nerdy in favor of a sporting event. There will be no Poli-Sci-Fi Radio this Sunday because Emily and I will be watching the US national soccer team take on Brazil in the Confederations Cup Tournament final that afternoon. The game actually ends before PSFR [...]

John Hodgman is my copilot… See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

There’s a comment thread over at Gerry’s blog that includes a reader named Kate who is experiencing classic Star Trek episodes for the first time (presumably inspired by the recent reboot). She’s making her way through the “good” episodes of the series and it’s got me thinking about how much those hours of TV have [...]

By: Emily Hello, Candleblog readers! I don’t know that I really need or want to bother with a big ol’ introduction, so I’ll be brief. I’m Emily, I’m Bill’s wife, I’m a nerd (redundant, I know…). I’m not entirely sure what form my contributions here will take. I’m interested in the intersection between nerdiness and [...]

Star Trek opens TODAY. Pinch me. I am waiting until Saturday to see it so I can take my mom for her birthday so nobody spoil anything for me! Word on the street is that this is far and away the best Trek movie yet (not too high a bar to reach in this Star [...]

Austin Trekkies gathered at the famous Alamo Drafthouse cinema on South Lamar Street (Best. Chocolate malts. Evar.) on Monday to view a special screening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The show was being hosted by Harry Knowles from Ain’t it Cool News and attendees would get to ask questions of the screenwriters [...]

We knew this was coming, but I’m still upset about it… Sunday’s Kings episode was seen by 3.6 million viewers and received a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49. Yet Dateline had a 1.5 rating in its half hour leading into Kings. NBC suspects an expanded Dateline will provide a better lead-in for 9 p.m.’s Celebrity [...]

First of all, Alan Tudyk, (Wash from Firefly/Serenity) just bought one of Emily’s dissected frogs. I know that Mr. Tudyk is a real live person and not a fictional character, and yet I still like to imagine Wash playing with the frog along with the dinosaurs on the Serenity’s dashboard. Yay! Secondly, I had intended [...]

The internet is abuzz this week, reacting to the long-awaited, much anticipated release of the Watchmen movie. Emily and I went to go see it on Friday with our pod of nerds and this blog post has been percolating around in my head since then. This post isn’t so much a review of Watchmen as [...]