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:::giggle:::
(From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)
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Link Dump
Stamps from the Future – Postage stamps “commemorating” the first AI to pass the Turing Test, the achievement of FTL, and more. Saarlac “Pitlow” Monster – Soft sculpture created for the “Stitch Wars” competition. I love the little Boba Fett helmet detail. From Sand to Silicon – Neat presentation from Intel showing how computer chips…
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Trek in the Park
A group of part-time actors is performing the TOS episode “Amok Time” in Portland’s Woodlawn Park, with another set of performances scheduled for next weekend. YouTube user dalgoda7 has uploaded several clips of the performance, such as the climactic lirpa fight. Geek Orthodox happened upon last weekend’s performance by accident and took lots of pictures.…
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The More You Know
(via io9)
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Tauntaun Tutorial
Most of you are probably aware of the Great ThinkGeek Tauntaun Hoax of ‘Ought-Nine, wherein they sent out their yearly April Fools newsletter, one of the featured “products” was a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, and there was a great disturbance in The Force as if millions of voices cried out, “I must have this.” ThinkGeek is…
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Houston, Tranquility Base Here…
…The Eagle has landed. It’s been 40 years today. Where were you when you heard those words?
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SF/F Stuff to Make with Your Kids
Dad Can Do is a resource for cool stuff that dads can do with their children. Luckily, they don’t check to make sure you’re a dad before letting you use their site. It’s got a whole section devoted to making amazingly beautiful yet relatively simple items like the dinosaur egg “fossil” shown here, steampunk-style goggles,…
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I Have to Agree
From Lore Sjöberg, who never fails to make me happy.
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Speculative Fiction Tropes
TV Tropes (whose horrible power xkcd summarized rather neatly here, so beware) has a whole section devoted to Speculative Fiction. Transplanted Humans Long ago, visitors came down from the stars, and took humans (and possibly other Earth species) away to other worlds. Now that we have the ability to travel between those stars, we keep…
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Chat Engine Upgrade
For those of you who attend our nightly science fiction chats: Hey guys! We fixed it! For those of you who don’t: We’ve been limping along with a supremely wonky chat engine for quite a long time now, and I finally got sufficiently fed up to do something about it. We’ve got a brand-new chat…