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Too True to Be Funny
Last Sunday’s User Friendly.
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Cephalopodmas
www.cephalopodmas.org/carols/13daysof.php HA!!
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Hors d’oeuvres?
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=40492213&size=o
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Really Short Stories
Wired Magazine challenged authors to write SF stories in just six words. Some of these are surprisingly evocative. Internet “wakes up?” Ridicu – no carrier. – Charles Stross It cost too much, staying human. – Bruce Sterling It’s behind you! Hurry before it – Rockne S. O’Bannon I’m your future, child. Don’t cry. – Stephen…
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Wil Wheaton Reviews ST:TNG
Wil Wheaton (yeah, him) has started doing reviews of Next Generation episodes over at TV Squad. The mood on the bridge is tense. Rumors about the Ferengi are numerous, and include some terrifying suggestions: they eat humans, they’re big and scary, and they have really huge wangs. :::cackle:::Link
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Science Fiction Tropes That Should be Scrapped
This blogger has put together a list of science fiction themes that have been done waaaaay to death. If you read or watch a lot of science fiction, you may begin to notice certain themes that constantly crop up. Some of these, like the ridiculously sexy female scientist/alien/robot/whatever, detract from the realism — but no…
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Porn Films For Robosexuals
From Defective Yeti: Some Like It Bot Rebel Without A Program Output Anything Uncanny Valley of the Dolls The Old Man and the PC Anode What You Did Last Summer Cool Grasping Mechanism Luke Neural Network Cape Amphere Schindler’s Array The Cogfather ROMadeus A Roomba With A View In the Heat Of The Byte Unborgiven…
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Herding Cats
There is actually a wine brand named Herding Cats. I want. Underdog Wine Merchants sound like my kind of people :-) Link (Sixth paragraph down) (When we went on the winery trip during ConJose, Bonny Doon was one of the best little wineries we visited. I even bought a bottle of their Cardinal Zin, just…
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Beasts
I love these people with so much time on their hands … http://www.funpic.hu/funblog/allatok/allatok.html
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Adding/Subtracting Planets
So instead of demoting Pluto to non-planetary status, there’s now a movement afoot to upgrade Charon, Ceres (which used to be considered a planet in the 1800s, then was downgraded), and the object known as 2003 UB313 (informally dubbed Xena). Lore Sjöberg over at Slumbering Lungfish has an amusing take on this: There’s a lot…