CONCEPT NOTEBOOK GIVES YOU PORTABLE STAR TREK CONTROL PANEL

The interesting thing about those 1980s Star Trek Next Generation episodes is how those very fake looking control panels (black glass with colorful shapes for interfaces) are now, in the wake of the iPhone and iPad, becoming quite realistic. Thus this latest concept device is less pie-in-the sky design fancy, and now just another realistic alternative.

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Here is your chance to see a Star Trek alum in person, plus…it’s free. Nichelle Nichols will be a performing vocalist in “Human Spaceflight: The Kennedy Legacy” at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, May 25th at 7pm. Also performing are the Space Philharmonic, Soldier’s Chorus of The US Army Field Band, and many more.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invites you to a special musical celebration honoring 50 years of American spaceflight. The program includes a Special Tribute to Human Spaceflight, and musical selections by Copland, Holst, Beethoven, Bernstein, Mancini, Courage/Roddenberry, Silvestri, Vaughn Williams, and Saint Saëns. Performance Timing: One hour.

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ATARI ANNOUNCES PLANS TO SELL OFF STAR TREK ONLINE DEVELOPER CRYPTIC STUDIOS

Doing business in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game space is tough going, unless you happen to be Blizzard Entertainment or have a game called World of Warcraft. Since those two names go hand in hand, you probably don’t. Cryptic Studios doesn’t, though the team there has plenty of experience with MMOs thanks to their fine work on releases like City of Heroes/Villains, Star Trek Online and Champions Online. Unfortunately, experience doesn’t always mean big subscription numbers, and the same losses that led to embracing a free-to-play, microtransaction-based business model for Champions are now prompting parent company Atari to sell off Cryptic.

The news comes in the publisher’s just-released earnings report, which reveals that its interest in the studio is being divested and that, as of March 31, the Champions dev is officially a “discontinued operation” (via Gamasutra). Support will be maintained for current Cryptic releases — including the developer’s ongoing work on a new Neverwinter game planned for a late 2011 release — while Atari seeks a buyer.

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WALK THE PLANK WITH SCI-FI AND FANTASY'S 10 BEST PIRATES

Johnny Depp's hilarious Captain Jack Sparrow sits atop Wired.com's treasure chest of weird and wonderful pirates ripped from the realms of sci-fi, fantasy and the internet.

Thanks to the irrepressible actor's Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, the fourth edition of which washes up Today On Stranger Tides, pirates — which mocking head Stephen Colbert recently labeled "sea terrorists" — are seriously back in pop-culture style.

It's an ironic convergence. Our era's increasing militarism and conformity seems decidedly at odds with the criminality and terrorism of stateless pirates thumbing their noses at dominant social and political orders. Whether it's the U.S. Navy crowdsourcing gamers to stem the tide of real pirates or the paranoid trials of download titans like The Pirate Bay, the global village seems to have no room for rebellion.

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CNN BEAMS UP PREVIEW OF WEEKEND'S COMIC CON

I knew where I'd be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we'll get there 'round 3ish: That's when Mr. Spock's scheduled to make what he cryptically tweets will be "a special program" of some kind. (Love that he ends every message with "LLAP.") Also on the guest list: Carrie Fisher (who, sadly, will not perform Wishful Drinking), Thomas Jane (who just wants his kids back) and a host of writers and artists familiar to anyone who's stepped foot in a comics shop lately.

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