The new DVD for Dead Like Me: Life After Death hits the shelves tomorrow. Kind of sad when the official homepage just says coming soon for the movie. The Brit TV show Demons has finished it’s first season, although you can still watch episodes from their home page if you live in the right postal code. SFX has a Demons Calendar you can install to your desktop, which will populate each day with information about the UK’s most haunted places. And MSN has just revealed the first full length trailer for Transformers II over on their video page.
Biologists and geneticists have enlisted folks from companies like Google and Adobe to figure out a way to display the massive amount of evolutionary data in a way that allows a mere human to make sense out of it, according to this NY Times story. The Daily Galaxy also mentioned the article, as did Discover Magazine and quite a few others. This is one field where the data and evidence is overwhelming, in the literal sense; there is so much of it, it is difficult to visualize the patterns it creates. The first steps have been taken, with the open source PhyloWidget, which you can use online or download to run locally. I am looking forward to seeing how this one develops; achieving the full project as envisioned will be even more impressive than Google Earth, another massive collection of data rendered into something useful.
Not just any gas mask, but cold war era soviet masks were used to create these Gas Mask Kazoos. And that’s just one of many projects you can find at Make.com; another is the Discreet Companion Ladies’ Raygun. Then there is Instructables with DIY info for things like Body Casting and Chocolate Molding… you have to love the internet.
Alan Sepinwall has an interview with Joss about Dollhouse, which is only hours away from airing.
The trailer is out for the new film La Troisieme Partie du Monde, or The Third Part of the World if you prefer English. Staring Clemence Poesy from In Bruges as a woman who’s lovers all get swept into hyperspace after being with her. Also out is the second trailer for Ark: The Series, staring Renee O’Connor. You can find a good interview with Trey Stokes about his new project over at Tubefilter.
Earth Final Conflict season 1 bloopers, found by SciFi Heaven.