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Trivia Thursday
What author, better known for his fantasy writing, wrote a sci-fi “biography” series about the Tyrant of Jupiter? In this Vernor Vinge novel, the Milky Way is divided into four concentric zones, the Unthinking Depths, the Slow Zone, the Beyond and the Transcend. Name it! The 1958 Japanese classic, The Hidden Fortress was acknowledged as…
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Geek a Week
Artist Len Peralta (of Monsters by Mail fame) has begun a project called Geek a Week: For 52 weeks he’s going to interview a notable geek and then create a trading card with their likeness and “fun facts” about them. John Scalzi was the most recent geek, providing the secret to his success (“Exploit Your…
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Link Dump
Goodnight Forest Moon – “Goodnight Ewoks/and goodnight macrobinocs.” Calavera Vader – Limited-edition print. Nerdy “Yo Momma” Jokes – Your momma’s so fat that the probability that she is in an arbitrary point in a room is 1. Alien vs. Pooh – An odd little Webcomic…thing that’s about just what it sounds like it’s about. I…
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That’s No Moon…
I’d never run into Death Melons before this one was mentioned on CRAFT, but apparently they’re kind of a thing. Evil Mad Scientist Labs has suggestions for making a less-intricate cantaloupe version, GearFuse has a pumpkin-based Death Star (blowing up a pumpkin Alderaan), and one even makes an appearance in Store Wars: If you’re looking…
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Move Beyond the Web
Savage Chickens has a great idea for a high-tech social interface methodology. I’ll be recommending this to our IT staff right away.
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Trivia Thursday
This 1963 film involved most of England’s population being blinded by light from a meteor shower and a small unaffected group trying to cope with lethal attacks from 7-foot, mobile vegetables. Name it. In Jack Chalker’s Well World series, what was the name of the god-like supercomputer? What was the title of Isaac Asimov’s first…
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A Movie That Needs to Be
Super Punch recently pointed to this Photoshopping thread on Fark, featuring the theme, “Movie poster for movie that never existed, but should have.” Some of them are kind of awesome, like this rather poignant one for Ender’s Game. (I also love this one.)
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Star Wars in Old Norse
Because why not? Jackson Crawford is a PhD student in Scandinavian Studies, specializing in Old Norse and its descendant languages. He was trying to find a way to sharpen his linguistic skills in a creative way, and when a colleague pointed out how well Star Wars would work as an Icelandic saga a ljósapera went…