Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival

by Adrienne Wilson on

Film Fest alert: Fans of fantasy and Asian culture will be glad to find the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) is in it’s 10th year and running from July 13 – July 22, 2006. Screening low-budget films, horror, sci-fi, thrillers and non-mainstream genres has placed the nighttime festival in the world of cult movie festivals. Actually, it’s the back-to-back night marathon said to be a major highlight. Three or four films in a row, unconventional themes, and let’s say a special baby-baby, love done by your side to enjoy the previewing…  Sounds like good summer movie fun!

The PiFan festival will take place at the Boksagol Cultural Center, Bucheon Citizen’s Hall Auditorium, Bucheon City Hall Auditorium, Wonmi-gu, Sang 1-dong, Bucheon, and Gyeonggi-do.

Brits Drink Germans Dry

by Erik Olsen on

God bless them. Even though the Brits lost and are no longer part of the World Cup competition, countrymen all over Germany are showing that they’ve got the mettle to drink the country dry. Of course, the Germans knew what was coming. They tried to plan for the heavy-drinking Brits. But alas, in the end, the quaffing was just too much, and the 70,000 or so English fans who came to Deutschland drank some 1.2 million pints of beer, an average of 17 pints each hooligan…er person. A German beerkeeper said he had never “seen so many drink so much in such little time.” Let us raise a glass on this fine Fourth of July weekend for our brethren overthe pond. Here here, and God save the Queen.

Robot Museum

by Erik Olsen on

The good folks at Engadget want to help find something for the geek in you to do next time you head to Japan. As if that country, and Tokyo especially, wasn’t a geek fantasyland already, what with all the high-tech gadgets and gizmos available that you won’t see here for five years.

Well, the newest attraction coming out of Japan is the Robot Museum, the country’s first museum fully dedicated to showing off the wide range of robots of the world. Ohh, ahh. I know, I can hear the synapses in your brain crackling with glee. The new museum is expected to open in Nagoya’s Sakae district in October.

Enter the Tribewanted Sweepstakes

by Adrienne Wilson on

Yup – I’ve long been the type to get geeked up over a good contest, but at least I don’t keep my discoveries top secret so that no one else can enter. That would be wickedly selfish of me. Now STA Travel has this Tribewanted contest going on and I must say it’s one of the more interesting sweepstakes I’ve seen in a good while. For starters they’re giving away a membership to the eco-friendly green community located in the Mamanuca Islands of Fiji. As a member of the Tribewanted you will gain a unique opportunity to participate in creating a ecological community with limited membership by debating tribal issues using an online forum to decide the development of the island. Only 5,000 memberships are being sold and only 100 people will be allowed on the island at one time. The island does not officially open until September 1, 2006.

Sound intriguing? Need more details? Head over to STA Travel, register, tell your friends and good luck!