Clicket sells media memorabilia: badges, toys, artwork,
costumes and -- masks. Oy. Such masks. Apparently, Paramount
has licensed a line of "Deluxe" Star Trek latex masks (you
can even get one for that alien thing that looks like an
albino gorilla with a horn in the middle of its forehead)
that are so egregiously ugly that they come all the way
around to beautiful. Picture William Shatner with even
more chins than he has in real life, rendered in
pink-crayon fleshtones. The effect is heightened by the
delicious baby-spit green that the site's authors have
chosen for the background. Don't miss the ID4 "Oversized
Exoskeleton Mask."
With the Star Wars back in the theaters, Star Wars scams are
back on the street. This page, part of the Star Wars
Collectors Site, is an account of a ripoff artist who
advertised rare, collectible Star Wars toys on the Usenet,
and the poor people who spent hundreds of dollars for what
turned out to be the new, cheapie figures on display at the
local Wal-Mart. A cautionary tale for this age, to be sure.
This beautiful, nostalgic site is a graphic tour through the
toy-fetishes of designer Brian Roach. Childish and lovely,
it perfectly captures the thrill of tearing the shrinkwrap
off a sexy new Steve Austin doll and sniffing the chemical,
new-toy-smell that his injection-molded body exuded.
About ten zillion songs that make science-fiction
references, organized by artist. Did you know that the Jazz
Butcher wrote a song about Harlan Ellison?
OK, so Mulder and Sculley are investigating a death -- the
CEO of an electronics company has been electrocuted by a
computer-gone-berserk (Episode 1x06). Wanna know if it's
plausible? Wanna know exactly how much electricity it takes
to kill someone? This site will tell you -- it annotates
the science in every episode of the X-Files.
Remember how your English teacher would use mountains of
"insightful" questions as an altar on which to sacrifice any
pleasure you took in whatever book you were studying? Well,
if you're feeling nostalgic, crack a copy of "War of the
Worlds," fire up your browser, and prepare to be numbed!
