Creation Entertainment announces that Robbie Duncan McNeill (tom Paris of Voyager) will also be attending this year’s 2007 Official Star Trek Convention (Aug 9-12, 2007).

Robbie joins these guests that have already been announced:

• William Shatner
• Leonard Nemoy
• George Takei (Sulu)
• Conner Trinneer (Cmdr. Charles ‘Trip’ Tucker in Enterprise)
• Armin Shimerman (Quark in Deep Space Nine)
• Nicole de Boer (Lieutenant Ezri Dax in Deep Space Nine)
• Dominc Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed in Enterprise)
• 70 other guests

This convention is being hosted by Creation Entertainment, they hosted the Stargate Con I attended in Vancouver, BC last year, it was a blast and well organized. You can view pics of last year’s Star Trek Con in Vegas on their site, as well as read details on this year’s ST Con here.

Who ya gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!! Man when I think about that song, and all the movies, I am reminded of Slimer, and the bumbling, yet efficient paranormal trapping group, with their particle beam weapons, and vortex traps. But one thing that always had captured my interest was the car they souped up and screamed around town in. What? You say you liked it too? Well, keep your ectoplasm in your pants, because it’s up for sale!

Proof again that you can buy just about anything online, folks! This handsome and famous 1959 Cadillac is tricked out and ready to drive away! The price, you ask? Only a cool $150,000

An estimated 30,000 people gathered at the World Social Forum in Nairobi last week where participants had a chance to vote for their favorite Nano-Hazard Symbol – a design that warns of the presence of engineered nanomaterials (1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter).

The 3 pics below are the winners of the international graphic design competition announced last week. The winning designs were submitted by: Dimitris Deligiannis (Greece), Shirley Gibson (Scotland), and Kypros Kyprianou (England).

“Tiny tech is no small matter – there was intense competition to design a nano-hazard symbol, and enormous interest in Nairobi,” said Pat Mooney of ETC Group. “We ended up with three winners who were virtually tied for first place,” explained Mooney.

The competition netted 482 unique designs from 24 countries. An independent panel of judges selected 16 finalists that appeared on the ballot in Nairobi that you can see below (clicky)

If you’d like to view all entries all 482 design submissions can be viewed here.

Such as this one that looks like billiard balls and a cue. Or this Ladybug wielding a wrench. This one i just don’t get, an elderly couple with a disintegrating cane? Is this one an alien head?

In any case, if you spot a good one, please link to it in the comments!

You can read a little more about the contest here at etcgroup.org. You can view their blog here (feed added!)

Every self-respecting nerd/geek I have known has spent their fair share of time gazing into the night sky and imagining just what its like on other worlds, or just travelling through the stars. Not everyone has a unfettered night sky view from their location because of city lights, trees, etc. So have I got a site for you! Nasa hosts a picture website that displays a new astronomical photo every day, along with a technical description by a guest professor. Here is the picture for today:

I’m fortunate enough to live in an area where, on a cloudless night, I can see a million stars above me. But, for those times that aren’t so weather friendly (which is most of the time), I go here, and check out the newest nebula, pulsar, or supergiant.

Indeed, this is a true statement. With the upcoming release of the new epic movie “Transformers”, media and manufacturers alike are pumping out the robot goodness in every facet of product catagories imaginable. When I was a kid, there were cars, guns, casettes and airplanes that could morph into some fearsome looking automatons. Now, as I was rifling through some of the goodies you can get now, I spotted this unusual item for sale.

I don’t know about you guys, but if I were a transformer, I think i’d rather be something a little more significant than this. Next thing you know, we’ll see transformer cigarette packs, whos only defense is blowing smoke at you