Happy Friday, everyone!  I know these videos are a few years old, but today seemed like a good day to celebrate how awesome the world is:



And here are xkcd's thoughts on the awesome-ness of the world, as well as the sci-fi version of the xkcd adaptation:


Here are some of the other fun things we found for you this week:

• A fantasy-themed B&B in Belgium. (Boing Boing)

• Thoughts on the value of awards to the scifi/fantasy community. (SF Signal)

• All the best "Walterisms" from Fringe. (EW)

• The laws of thermopoetics. (Brain Pickings)

• It would have been so cool if my parents had done this to my room when I was a kid. (Imgur)

• What might make chocolate candies better?  Well, maybe if they were in the shape of the Millennium Falcon! (Geekologie)

• Damien Walter's thoughts on the role of science fiction and fantasy, with a brief mention of ICFA. (The Guardian)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, enjoying the awesome world!