At first glance, your average Biggie verse doesn’t have much in common with Isaac Asimov. But when you look closer, the connections between hip hop and scifi really aren’t so hard to find… io9.com

I asked for a Jetson‘s flying car and I get a Flintstone‘s man- powered pushmobile instead.

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The Supergirls, a cultural history of comic book heroines, asks whether their world of fantasy is that different from our own… bitchmagazine.org

“The Supergirls is a long overdue tribute to the fabulous fighting females whose beauty and bravery brighten the pages of your favorite comics.”—Stan Lee

A contraption in the style of Wallace and Gromit has been built which cooks breakfast automatically, including an omelette, toast and freshly squeezed orange juice… telegraph.co.uk

Propaganda never looked quite so stunning as it does in Animated Soviet Propaganda, a four-disc compilation of political material produced by the Soviet government throughout its five decades of control over Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries…amazon.com

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This is wrong for just so many reasons…

A new show of the art of Basil Wolverton is hanging in New York’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery (515 West 24th Street, Chelsea; (212) 206-9300) until Aug 14. The New York Times has a nice potted history (with slideshow) of MAD Magazine’s grossest and funniest illustrator to accompany the show …boingboing.net

If you thought giant robots and monsters appearing in Tokyo were only real in movies, then you would now be wrong. A life-sized statue of a Gundam, a giant robotic warrior suit, has been built in a park in Tokyo.

The Gundam statue is based on an extremely popular Japanese anime (cartoon) called Mobile Suit Gundam. The show, featuring large robotic warrior suits, first aired in April of 1979 and has since spawned numerous spin-offs and a franchise reportedly worth billions of Japanese yen…examiner.com

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Depending on your nostalgic obsession (Disney fan boy, or Transformers geek), the new Mickey Mouse Transformer is either genius or the further erosion of a beloved robot franchise. This seemingly unholy alliance was on display at this week’s Tokyo Toy Forum 2009…dvice.com

More than meets eye!