Dr. Who

Watching "A Single Man," which is set in the '60s, over the weekend, I had a serious flash of nostalgia for the good old phone booth. Turns out I needn't pine too much for times past, as Google is bringing back a version of the booths here in 2010.

As we reported Wednesday, Google is integrating phone calling capability into its Gmail service and plans to install vintage-style Google Voice phone booths in airports and universities around the U.S. to promote this new capability.

The booths come in the style of traditional red U.K. phone boxes … Read more

The new Doctor, fresh from saving the world with nothing more than a laptop, a camera phone, and a ginger kissogram, will be appearing on your laptop in a new series of downloadable games.

The BBC has pulled out the big guns for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, with full voice-overs from the Doctor and his lovely companion Amy Pond.

Read more of "Doctor Who game: Downloadable 'interactive episodes' materialising this summer" at Crave UK.

Black sneakers are pretty stylish all on their own. It's hard to improve upon basic black.

But if you could, this would be one way to do it: trick them out with hand-painted Daleks from Doctor Who!

Inventive crafty type kelly_bear whipped up these kickin' kicks, complete with the Daleks' signature phrase, "Exterminate!" on the backs.

And while they can't actually exterminate people as far as I know (my brother's shoes can, Daleks or not), they do have one advantage over their inspiration: they can go up stairs.

(Via Technabob)