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Trek Caskets
Eternal Image, a company which specializes in “the design, manufacturing and marketing of licensed brand image funerary products”, has acquired a license to manufacture Star Trek-branded funeral products. Since most of the other caskets they offer (and let me just say that my dreams will be haunted by the knowledge that there exists a line…
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:::giggle:::
21 SF/F Books Whose Titles Would Be Funnier if They Used the Word “Pants” 20,000 Pants Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Fire Upon the Pants/A Deepness in the Pants by Vernor Vinge A Journey to the Center of the Pants by Jules Verne A Song of Ice and Pants by George R. R.…
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Aaaand We’re Back
The new theme is back up, with comments fixed. Here I was feeling hurt because nobody was commenting…. Sorry sorry sorry. If you’ve made comments in the past few days, please repost ’em. :::sigh:::
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Aaaaaaaaargh.
We are temporarily back to our old theme, because I upgraded the blog backend at the same time I switched to the new theme, and the new theme has something wrong with the comments. How splendid! If you’ve commented on anything in the past few days, I sincerely apologize; your comments didn’t take. Please try…
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Beep…Beep…Beep…
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth. Sputnik is 50 today. Link
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Doctorow Reviews Stross’ Halting State
The premise is kind of neat, involving a bank heist in an MMORPG. Charlie Stross’s latest novel Halting State starts out as a hilarious post-cyberpunk police procedural, turns into a gripping post-cyberpunk technothriller, and escalates into a Big Ideas book about the future of economics, virtual worlds, the nation state and policing, while managing to…
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You Should Be Reading This
The Webcomic xkcd is a thoughtful, surprisingly lyrical, musing on various aspects of Deep Geekery. Occasionally it strays into science fiction territory, as in this one. Added bonus extra feature: Each comic has an Easter eggy-sort of thing in the form of the ALT tag on the image file. Mousing over the cartoon should make…
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HowTo: Make a Ghostbuster Backpack
Well, my family’s motto may be, “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth overdoing,” but this guy beats us all hollow. He created two dynamite Ghostbusters backpacks, and has been kind enough to post instructions. He says he managed to build both packs in under two weeks, so there’s still time before Halloween!…
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Are Manned Missions Passe?
This article brings up an interesting argument: Manned space missions are more dangerous and costly than mechanical ones. “Intelligent” robots and satellites can do a pretty good job exploring other planets, they’re much less fragile than humans, and you don’t have to worry about bringing them back safely. The romance of manned missions aside, does…
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Another Life Ruined
(via Neatorama)