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Link Dump
H.R. Giger Webstore – Giger’s official store, featuring jewelry and other cast items based on his artwork. The Surreal Treehoppers – We really don’t need to look very far to find seriously alien-looking life. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – Now we know. The House of Mouse – Etsy seller specializing in little felt mice, dressed…
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Trivia Thursday
This author was a lecturer in botany at St. Andrew’s University before deciding to become a writer full-time. His books include Four Hundred Billion Stars, Fairyland, and Pasquale’s Angel. Name him. What German film, based on Stanislaw Lem’s novel The Astronauts, was released in an abridged version in the United States in 1962? What is…
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Anger is Illogical
OneMinuteGalactica has a whole channel filled with stuff like this. (via Topless Robot)
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Particle Pings: Sounds Of The Large Hadron Collider
ANDREW PRINCE, NPR Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland, the world’s most massive physics machine is sending subatomic particles smashing into each other at speeds nearing the speed of light. Physicists working with the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider hope it will help solve some of the universe’s mysteries. But first, researchers must overcome…
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Klingon Huck
Recently on Twitter, Neil Gaiman commented on the “sanitized Huck Finn” flap by saying: People asking about http://wapo.st/eRHo6W. It’s public domain, so you can make Huck a Klingon if you want, but it’s not Mark Twain’s book. @neilhimself Which he then decided to illustrate by saying: What’s the use you learnin’ to do right, when…
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Seen Online
I want to see a hacker movie where the protagonist just stares in confusion at a stack trace for a few minutes. No typing, no chatter. — therealadam My bologna does not have a first name. I fear giving it one will make it self-aware. — sucittaM LOT OF BIRD DROP DEAD IN ARKANSAS! THEN…
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Trivia Thursday
In what novel by Arthur C. Clarke does the spaceship ENDEAVOUR investigate a mysterious object from far, far away? Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor wore what notable piece of clothing? This 1963 film about most of England’s population being blinded by light from a meteor shower and a small unaffected group trying to cope with lethal…
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The Weirdest Thing You’ll See All Day
Singer Amanda Palmer spoofs Labyrinth. this ridiculousness was made LAST summer in edinburgh while we were al there for the fringe staying with the fabulous cunninghams. i got the idea because i was going for a daily jog down that endless walled alley and every single time i did i couldn’t help feeling like i…
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Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Universes
via Technology Review Our cosmos was “bruised” in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background There’s something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced…
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RIP Anne Francis
She has passed away at age 80. It’s been a bad few months for people who starred in Forbidden Planet.