Making yesterday seem like tomorrow since 2001.

Heroes Network is a website dedicated to putting real-life superheroes in touch with each other, in order to help them combine efforts and help save the world.

Lego team up with Kellogg’s to teach children how to choke themselves.

The trailer for David Fincher’s new movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, is now available.

As many blogs have already commented, it looks mesmerising.

Loosely adapted from short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922, it centres on the eponymous Benjamin Button, a man born old who then lives his life in reverse – ie. getting younger as time passes.

I can’t find any information to the contrary, but I would suspect it heavily influenced Philip K Dick’s science-fiction novel, Counter-Clock World which describes a future in which time has started to move in backwards, resulting in the dead reviving in their own graves, living their lives in reverse, eventually ending in returning to the womb.

Expect a few movies like this to appear over the coming months and years, including an adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s quite brilliant novel The Time Traveller’s Wife.

Is the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King related to the science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury?

Ronald L. Mallett is the unlikely name for an African-American physicist working on a fully-funded project to build a time machine.

In 1955, when Mallett was 10 years old, his dad died suddenly of a heart attack. Inspired by events described in H.G. Wells’ pioneering work of fiction The Time Machine, Mallett has made it his life goal to create an actual time machine, so he can go back and warn his dad not to smoke.

You can find out more about him at Wikipedia and inspect the plans for his device, which is intended to bend light, or something.

Maverick director Spike Lee is set to make a film about Mallett’s life.

Note: 1955 is the year Marty McFly accidentally journeys back to in Back to The Future.

A blog dedicated to watching the original ‘video naties’, so you don’t have to.

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Jason Kottke recently linked to a New Yorker article by George Saunders in which he describes an idea for a TV show: everyone on earth thinks that they have superpowers but they really don’t.

The basic premise of Mark Millar’s mini-series, Wanted, was a world of super-heroes that has been taken over by super-villains; only the super-heroes have been convinced by the villains that they’re ordinary people.

Wanted hits the big screen in the next few weeks.