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Now on My Wish List
Last Exit To Nowhere features T-shirts which “are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction.” Aliens’ Weyland-Yutani Corp, Clockwork Orange’s Ludovico Technique, and lots more. The shirts are almost cool enough to make me forgive the site’s nausea-inducing Flash interface. Link
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Serial Novel Available Online
Our own Araiused will be making her novel, Blue Star, Glory Far, available here in serial form. You can read Chapter 1 right now, and check the Stories page for additional updates.
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The Strangest Sights in GoogleEarth
This is pretty amazing stuff, from surprisingly high-resolution shots of people on Bondi Beach to a startling and unexplained blood-red lake in Iraq. Link
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Another Dang List
Forever Geek (whose tagline, “Nerds are for Dorks” is oddly Zen-like) has put together a list of the ten worst sci-fi TV shows of all time. Ripped from the pages of Malibu Comics Ultraverse line of books, Nightman was a saxophone playing blues man by night…and a superhero named Nightman by…nighter. Link (via Neatorama)
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The 50 Best Robot Movies
The Times Online apparently has a couple of obsessive-compulsives on staff, and they’ve exhaustively researched the 50 best robot movies of all time and then rated them using the following criteria:Plausibility (meaning how likely it would be that, with advances on currently existing technology, such a device could be built)Coolness (just how well designed, shiny…
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Headline of the Day
China insists on approving reincarnations of Tibetan lamas I want to see the form they have to fill out.
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Things Get a Little Weirder on teh Intartubes
Jesuit academic Antonio Spadaro has suggested that Second Life would be an excellent place to go do missionary work. (Really!) Although it’s supposed to be a humor column, the latest Alt Text actually makes some excellent points about the weirdness that is Ministering to the Avatars: However, some sins seem to be sins even if…
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:::cackle:::
Scott Adams’ blog entry today talks about a recent study which “discovered” that smart people have less sex than dumb ones. Then he asks this question: This leads me to my question of the day. Would you be willing to give up 10 points of IQ for a dramatic and permanent increase in your sex…
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Diaper Wars
A “baby spoof” of Star Wars, this Flash video stars Babywan Kenobi, Luke Cribwalker, and Jabba the Tot, among others.Link (via Neatorama)
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Guilty Pleasures of the 80s
Wil Wheaton’s latest Geek in Review column is about guilty-pleasure sci fi (not SF…sci fi) movies of the 80s. [They Live] Rowdy Roddy Piper can see all this, including the actual ghoulish appearance of the invaders, by wearing some nifty (for values of “nifty” do “totally fucking lame”) sunglasses that let him see things as…