Hollywood adaptations I didn’t expect to see

Part one: Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz is adapting the BBC comedy The Thick of It for a US audience, with Armando Ianucci as executive producer.

Part two: Acclaimed indie director Wes Anderson, best known for quirky films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, has chosen his next project – an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.

Colour and Sound and Motion

Together at last.

Revealed

The truth about Torchwood.

“Get off the road!”

I may be slightly too fond of trailer mashups, but this mix ofLord of the Rings and the Transformers movie is awesome.

Sci-fi pumpkins

First they brought you the Cylon-o-lantern; for their nexxt trick, EvilMadScientist.com made a Robotic Dalek Pumpkin.

“Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.”

Six-word stories at Wired. (Although none of them tickle me quite the way the Stephen Baxter story in the Concussion souvenir book does: “Big Bang. No God. Fadeout. End.”)

Shenanigans

Gary K. Wolfe on podcasting.

I hate podcasting.

Since Niall is posting about creepy plush things …

Here’s another – “Zaky — It’s Like Leaving a Part of You with Your Baby That’s right, giant creepy disembodied hands you can attach to your baby – what more could a parent want? (It isn’t just me freaked out by the pictures is it?)

If you haven’t given birth yet, the Zaky is great to bring to the hospital when your baby is born. Scent it with your own scent beforehand to help your baby when he/she is in the bassinet next to you or give it to the nurse when your baby is taken to the hospital’s nursery.

So how exactly do we scent things anyway?

Adjectives Fail Me. Again.

Via James Nicoll: Teddybabes, meet Teddy babes. (If the main page for the latter doesn’t make you want to disown your species, the FAQ will probably do the trick.)

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Engage cloaking device!

Continuing our current science theme at the Big Blog of Cheese, scientists have invented a working invisibility cloak. Although right now it only works in the microwave region of the spectrum, it should in theory work for all specific wavelengths. Just as soon as we invent sufficiently advanced nanotechnology.