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This is All Too Horribly Accurate
Once we make first contact, this kind of thing will happen regularly. Click over to Abstruse Goose to see the entire strip. (I like the mouseover text disclaimer.)
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Trivia Thursday
We never learn the Mule’s name, but he took this title during his reign. What is a falan? Ripaway-bra queen Sybil Danning starred in this sci-fi remake of The Magnificent Seven. What is the name of The Star Beast in Robert A. Heinlein’s young adult novel of the same name? One of the most-parodied lines…
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Amnesia of the Future
Christina writes book reviews for STACKED. She somehow managed to grow to adulthood without ever seeing an episode of Star Trek. Thus, when she decided to review Wil Wheaton’s Memories of the Future: Volume 1 she also decided to watch each TNG episode covered in the book before reading the corresponding chapter. Now that she’s…
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Happy Birthday BBS
On this date in 1978 Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first public dialup bulletin board system. It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come in the past three decades. Link (via BoingBoing)
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Seen Online
Every time you swim in the ocean and you hit a warm patch? Aquaman pee. — sween IMPORTANT: The Universe contains material that may be objectionable to children under 17. [Cancel] [[OK]] — hotdogsladies Hey, ancient Egyptians! I’m eating popcorn that I cooked inside a bag in under a minute. Fuck your pyramids. — kolchak…
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We ALL Love xkcd
Olga Nunes and Elaine Doyle were so inspired by this xkcd comic that they set it to music, and they managed to talk a bunch of famous geeks into singing along. Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow (in cape and goggles), Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, and loads of others are featured. See Olga’s site…
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Trivia Thursday
This ship was the setting for the last seasons of the 80s TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Name it! What is the title of a 1966 John Brunner novel about overpopulation? The only way to get a death sentence in the Federation is to go to what planet? Who wrote West of…
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This is Utterly Wonderful
I heart Para Abnormal so much.
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Tentacles are for Hugging
Dot from Dabbled has been featured here before, as her squid fixation fits right in with our cephalopodesque sensibilities (we even hired her to design our logo). She’s posted a couple of adorable Valentine’s Day cards, free to download and print. This cute little squid is here, and the Jonathan Coulton-inspired Code Monkey is here.…
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The Future of NASA
DaleB sent me a link to this analysis of President Obama’s new NASA budget, with the comment: One the one hand, the move to evolve from the “…technologies we’ve developed in the ’50’s and “60’s” is good. But I cannot get over the feeling that this is a big step back or at least off…