SteamPunk @ DC08

I noticed it too. Tons of people dressed as Victorian era adventurers, only armed with fantasticly improbable weaponry. And welding goggles. You can't forget those...

And women in corsets and dresses with what we used to call "Granny Boots" in highschool. And welding goggles.

Apparently in the Steam-Punk aesthetic there is no occasion in which it isn't appropriate to be prepared to do some welding. And who can blame them? In a world where giant robots and aliens from mars can attack your city while you're trying to hold your own in a game of billiards at the gentlemen's club - who's to say you won't need to pause and do some welding?

Weird Tales's website has an interesting article about the rising popularity of this genre/aesthetic.
Enjoy.

Spring is Near...

DragonCon is over, new friendships have been forged and as the calendar rolls on toward autumn, these maples begin to show red at their fringes. To a fly a year would be generations, to a tree it must seem a moment. Here's to a year like a tree...

Party on Groethe

That's a weak Wayne's World joke.

Randi looks amazing!

Derek and Randi loitering outside the 'future of skepticim' track.

Beneath the Hilton

That is no dead which doth game
And after strange aeons this poem's still lame.

Starcraft anyone?

Looks interesting, but I prefer the PC version.

Actually

1, 4, and 5. Dang it!

My guess

Without dowsing, my guess is 2, 5, and 8.

Can they do it?

LOL. The challenge is to find water in cans.

JREF million dollar challenge

Some kind of dowsing test? We shall see.

Where in the hell is Carmen SanDiego?

At DragonCon of course! Duh.

Petticoat Junction

LOL.

dragonCon foodcourt haiku

A sea of strangeness
Fairies and Jedi eating
Voices merged to song

At 2:27 nearly capacity

Neat. Ben Radford's talk on Psychic Defectives -er, I mean "detectives" is at near room capcity.

The debate is on - round 2

It begins HOT with Graham having to explain the comment he made last year where he said, "James Randi is a fraud." He retracted that to state he meant to say that the Million Dollar Challenge is a fraud. I don't think he backed it up too well - but obviously believed what he was saying.

Ben Radford vs. The Devil

The two designers of 'Playing Gods' face off.

Skeptical Podcasting Track

Dr. Novella, Derek Colanduno, Dr. Pamela Gay, D. J. Grothe, Richard Saunders, Ginger Cambell MD.

Skepticism 101

Wow! Close to 200 people in here!

Waiting for Randi's first panel

DragonCon 08 has begun.

Busy workers