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George Lucas Must be Stopped
He’s planning a live-action Star Wars TV series. Asked if Darth, Luke, or Han might be making an appearance, Lucas is quoted as saying, “The Skywalkers aren’t in it, and it’s about minor characters,” leading me to wonder if Wedge Antilles is finally going to have his moment in the sun. Having spent the past…
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Humorous Interlude
Long ago, when I worked for a video store–I had bills to pay and some karma from a past life to work off–one of my colleagues was a guy named Pat. Pat was one of those slyly humorous slacker geeks with an encyclopedic knowledge of everything from D&D arcana to obscure comic book characters.* One…
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Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship
The Citizen Lab has a new anti-censorware guide, “Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide.” It’s in PDF format, and has material for both anti-censorware activists and users. If you’re interested in Internet Censorship–and you should be–you might want to take a look. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Con Costumes Flickr Pool
There’s a Flickr pool devoted entirely to con costumes! They appear to be mostly hall costumes rather than Masquerade entries, and they’re somewhat heavy on the Orion slave girl demographic, but with over 1,500 photos in the stream you ought to find something intriguing. Link (via 365 Halloween)
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Cephalopod yarn project
Wish I listened to Grandma and learned how to knit/crochet.
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Things You Shouldn’t Do in SF/F Writing
E.E. Knight, a self-described “pulp writer,” has compiled a list of blunders made by beginning authors. Obviously, some of these are a matter of taste (Ray Bradbury has made a career out of #2), but they’re worth a look if you’re trying to get your fiction published. Strange days. Stranger names: I get sf/fantasy stories…
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PatchGeeks: SF/F Patches
Here’s a neat source for Halloween costume details, or just to add a little flair to a mundane jacket. These guys specialize in patches and insignias from various SF and Fantasy TV shows and movies (Alien, B5, Buffy, Firefly, and loads more). If you’ve always wanted a Resident Evil “Umbrella Corp” logo to complete that…
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Another xkcd Moment
Today’s cartoon, titled “Exploits of a Mom,” makes me wish I’d thought of this when Shadowboy was born. “Shadowboy ; cat /etc/passwd | email chip@mail.com” has a nice ring to it. Link
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The “God Lobe”
The current issue of Scientific American Mind discusses how neuroscientists are using brain scans to study the biology of spiritual experiences; they are, for instance, taking MRIs of the brains of people when they are recalling “religious experiences,” to see what parts of the brain light up. University of Montreal researcher Mario Beauregard says, “These…
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The Top Twenty Starship Captains
As the author of this post says, “The title is intentionally misleading, meant to get me Diggs and hits. This is the 20 starship captains I chose to write about, in rough order of how much they interest me. The top five, however, are in my opinion THE TOP FIVE.” However, with quotes like this…