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8 Tragic Ghost Towns of the 20th Century
Desolate, ruined, hollow: ghost towns are the remnants of urban catastrophe. Whether it’s a shift in local industry or a particularly nasty disaster that sparks a mass exodus, it means the death knell for a town. Eerie and tragic, yet brimming with history, the following ghost towns are monuments to hardship, good intentions with bad…
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Go Read This Right Now
On Scalzi’s blog: Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today Why are you still here? Go! Read!
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Trivia Thursday
It was an unpleasant profession, so who did it? The only way to get a death sentence in the Federation is to go where?A) TerminusB) Talos IVC) KaitanD) IscandarE) Yavin 4 This author, known for graphic novels, adult fantasy, and Young Adult fantasy, Won the 2009 Newberry Award for best American children’s book of 2008…
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They’re Using High-Tech Equipment; It Must Be Science
I feel for Beaker. (via Dave Lowe)
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Link Dump
Samurai Wars – Astonishing custom action figures which reimagine Star Wars characters as Japanese warriors and mythical beings. Done by the same guy who made the awesome “steampunk wars” figures a while back. Sane Clown Posse – A response to the brouhaha they set off with their anti-science lyrics. Umbilical Cord iPhone Charger – I’m…
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Michael J. Fox Reenacts BTtF Trailer
For Back to the Future’s 25th anniversary (anybody else feel old?), Spike TV had Michael J. Fox re-create the film’s original trailer. Here’s the original, for comparison. (via Blame It on the Voices)
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Old Weather
Here’s a useful crowdsourcing project: Old Weather asks participants to parse the contents of old Royal Navy nautical logbooks to help track climate change. Finding the date, the ship’s location, and the weather observations will add useful data points for testing and refining current climate models. Here’s how to get started: (via BoingBoing)
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Trivia Thursday
This SF author hails from Austin, Texas and was the recipient of what is indisputably the greatest academic title and job in the World as Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. Lessa, a character in Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series, rides a dragon named what? What famous SF movie was…
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Creator-Blessed ElfQuest Fan Film Crowdsources Funds
LIZ SHANNON MILLER of GIGAOM The graphic novel series ElfQuest, created by Richard and Wendy Pini, has been a cult favorite among fantasy fans since its debut in 1978, and for years, Hollywood has been developing a feature film around the property. But new media actors/producers Stephanie Thorpe (After Judgement) and Paula Rhodes (A Good…
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Warren Ellis: Ghosting the real world
warren ellis, Wired.co.uk I’m in the middle of starting a new novel right now, and the bad thing about that strange phase of existence is that everything you see and hear somehow relates, in the wankmulch your brain has become, to that novel. Even a shopping list becomes a mass of notation and connective lines…