Weirdness Isolation and Sunnydale Syndrome
The TV Tropes Wiki is a useful community-built resource of common plot elements on television shows, which illustrates the high degree of scholarship and close reading that fan culture is…
Devil’s Horns and the Evil Eye
A little known fact (to me, anyway...and it may not be a fact at all) about signs of the horns (aka "Devil's Horns" aka "the Goat" aka "Satan Fingers"): Though…
Android Science and the Uncanny Valley
In addition to sharing his published research online on his website, Karl F. MacDorman has a series of youtube videos from his presentation on the the "uncanny valley" in android science,…
“Uncanny Media” Conference
Uncanny Media is "An International Conference on the Gothic Shadows of Mediation" being held next month on Aug 7-9, 2008 in Utrecht, Netherlands. With keynote speakers like Fred Botting (author…