Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

If you do not follow William Shatner on Twitter (@WilliamShatner), you may have missed the announcement he made yesterday of a new social networking site created by the Admiral himself, called MYOUTERSPACE. In his own words transcribed from his welcome video: Welcome to MYOUTERSPACE. A brand new community of sci-fi, horror... 

If you missed the exciting announcement about SETIcon, let me fill you in. SETIcon is a dream come true! It will be held at the Hyatt Recency in Santa Clara from August 13 – 15, 2010 and will be a geekasmic celebration of Astronomy, SETI, Star Trek and science fiction in general. Tickets are dirt cheap as well,$20 a day... 

With millions of views, I do not know how I had not become aware of How It Should Have Ended until @Accalon tweeted the following two videos yesterday. To date, they have 25 episodes including Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended, Terminator – How It Should Have Ended, How Superman Should Have Ended and more. You can find... 

It is no secret that I find the MMO Star Trek Online to be a failure. However, some enjoy the game and that is fair. So if you are wanting to know what is being planned in the future for this game, I invite you to head on over to Skewed and Reviewed, where Gareth Von Kallenbach recently interviewed Craig Zinkievich, Executive... 

Time for more Geeky apparel. This time I present to you the Darth Vader leather jacket by Adidas, or as they call it Star Wars Superstar Track Top Darth Vader. To be honest, I don’t think I like it. Maybe because it is too young and hipster and I feel kinda insulted looking at it for a reason I am having a hard time... 

Imagine if you will, you are sound asleep when you here an alarm go off in the distance. Still in that state between awake and asleep, you hear the faint sounds of mechanical breathing. You begin to open your eyes. Unable to truly focus, you see the blurred shadow of Darth Vader in your room. You rub your eyes in an attempt... 

Yes I know this is two days early, however as of today I am away until next week getting my game on with GottaCon. This means no site updates for about a week. The timing of becoming aware of this week’s Geek of the Week could not have been better. A friend of mine sent me an email with the title Hey Jules… the following... 

Sweet babies Jeebus and Buddha, the following is all kinds of awesome! What could be better than a toy Star Trek phaser? I have the answer to that question. A toy Star Trek phaser that has been modified to shoot freaking laser beams. LASERS! And not only does it shoot freaking laser beams, it will pop balloons. BALLOONS! Star... 

All I have to say is thank you @catpitman for bringing this t-shirt available at T-Shirt Hell to my attention. I will let the shirt speak for itself.  Read More →

“Cut the chatter, Red 2. Accelerate to attack speed.” Have you ever wanted your own X-Wing fighter? I mean one that can fly without you having to hold onto it and make it swoop in and out of battle with the power of your outreached arm? Now for $399 you can. Look at this bloody thing! It is a Star Wars RCX4 Star...