“he’ll beat you face and beat off on your face.”

Stanislaw Lem, 84, a Polish-born writer of “reality based” science fiction who tweaked Communist authorities and became one of the world’s best-selling authors with books such as “Solaris” and “The Futurological Congress,” died March 27 at a hospital in Krakow, Poland. He had a heart ailment.

Man, even though Mel Gibson has gone a bit nutty in his film choices recently, I sure would love to see another Road Warrior flick - so it’s good news that he is delving back into the Sci-Fi world with a film called Push.

Shatner, best known as Capt. James T. Kirk on “Star Trek,” and also famed as TV über cop T.J. Hooker, over-the-top “Boston Legal” lawyer Denny Crane, and a singer with a, ahem, unique vocal style, turns 75 Wednesday. […] Shatner was born March 22, 1931, in Montreal. He began to build his acting pedigree early, performing as a boy for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. He has performed Shakespeare, on Broadway — and on American television, on “Playhouse 90″ and “Studio One.”

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THAT sounds scifi, eh?

The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program is the responsibility of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which on March 9 announced that it was soliciting research proposals on the technology. These insects would be outfitted with sensors and a wireless transmitter that could enable them to send data on conditions in places inaccessible to human troops. The goal of the program is to produce a sensor-enabled insect with a 100-yard range that could be placed within five meters of a target using electronic remote control and, potentially, Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies.

”A Scanner Darkly” is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. ( Richard Linklater (dir.) Keanu Reeves Robert Downey, Jr Woody Harrelson Wynona Ryder Rory Cochrane)

Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to Stoneheart, the first installment of a fantasy trilogy about ancient statues that come to life in London, Variety reported. Scott Rudin and Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce, and Charlie Fletcher will write the script from his novel, which will be published in the United States by Hyperion and by the Hachette-owned Hodder Children’s imprint in the United Kingdom.

In Stoneheart, a shy 12-year-old on a class trip to London’s war museum knocks the head off a stone dragon and quickly finds himself menaced by stone serpents that adorned the museum and have come to life. The kid is saved by the bronze statue of a soldier.

Paramount’s excitement about Stoneheart can be seen in the fact that its top two producers - Scott Rudin (Failure to Launch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander) and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers: The Movie, Derailed, Four Brothers) - both wanted the book when it was brought to the studio. Instead of choosing one man to guide the project, the studio persuaded them to agree (eagerly, supposedly) to collaborate for the first time.

I’m thisclose to selling my show —'’Billy Bastard — Amateur Human Being,'’

And the other good news is that they’re doing 26 new episodes of ‘’Futurama'’ for TV and we’re hammering out the deal now.The original plan was to have the DVD’s first but that’s no longer the case.I’m totaly jammed dude.

Guys,
I’m sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD’s but I appearently had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must’ve died or something.

All eyes on the skies,

Billy