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The United Nations, Whoopi Goldberg, and Battlestar Galactica
Now … why can’t we have this kind of panel at our conventions? From the New York Times …. By PATRICK HEALY; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM Published: March 15, 2009 ‘Battlestar Galactica’: The Worldview The United Nations and the Sci Fi Channel will present a panel discussion Tuesday evening on the social and political issues…
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PartiallyClips
This “Webcomic for Grownups” is entirely wonderful, and many of the entries deal with SF and fantasy tropes (which is why I can shoehorn it, grunting and sweating, into this blog). Go here to see the rest of this strip. I’m also quite taken with this, this, this, and, oh heck, just go read the…
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Link Dump
It’s been a busy week. I’ve got deadlines at work, unexpected travel, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped. So you guys get another link dump. Badger Cover Gallery – Great collection of campy-looking book covers for SF and fantasy novels. 12 Things the Latest Trailer Taught Me About the…
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Still Not Buyin’ It
SF Signal has a new contributor who decided to start with a bang by arguing that the Star Wars prequels were actually pretty good (Part 1/Part 2). I can sort of halfway agree with his notion that the original movies had built themselves up to mythic proportions in our heads by the time the new…
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50 Reasons to Reject Evolution
We’ve published a number of articles dealing with the evidence in favor of evolution. It’s only fair that we present an opposing viewpoint. 3.) Because if I can’t immediately understand how something works, then it must be bullshit. 4.) Because I don’t care that literally 99.9% of all biologists accept evolution as the unifying theory…
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Robot to Teach Elementary School
Japan is faced with an aging workforce, pushing up wage costs and making recruitment difficult. In an attempt to reduce costs but still retain some human interaction, an android named Saya is about to have a trial run as a teacher at a primary school in Tokyo. “She” has a latex face with 18 motors…
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He’s not a Loctopi
The caretakers for the octopi at the aquarium place food inside locked boxes as an enrichment activity. The idea is that the animals, who are very intelligent, must figure out how to unlatch the boxes and get the food, aquarium officials said in a news release. This contortionist had other ideas …
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C for Cookie
Movie trailer depicting a futuristic world where the consumption of cookies is controlled by the government…. (via SF Signal)
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Oh, Please Let This Be a Parody
There’s a concept known as Poe’s Law which posits that, unless you state specifically that you’re kidding, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. I think that idea should be expanded beyond religious fundamentalism, because I’m still not sure whether the Stop Alien Abductions site…
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T-Shirts!
I have previously sung the praises of the fabulous Dot over at Dabbled, whose fixations include robots and cephalopods. At some point it occurred to me that she was uniquely suited to design a new logo for the O*W*C, and despite the fact that she is much too good for us, she agreed to do…