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Pope: Aliens are A-Okay
Yesterday the Vatican stated that it’s acceptable to believe in extraterrestrial life and that such belief in no way contradicts the Church’s teachings on faith in god. The Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes, the Pope’s chief astronomer, said that the vastness of the universe surely suggests that there could be other forms of intellligent life outside…
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Wil Wheaton on New Trek Movie
Commenting on this Wired article where J.J. Abrams claims that he is “reinventing” Trek with the new movie, Wil Wheaton offers his thoughts. Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I hear someone talking about “reinventing” something like Trek is that it will be a tower of suck, built out of an endless…
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Superhero is the New Floral
According to the fashion mavens over at the New York Times, whom I cannot guarantee weren’t huffing spray paint when they wrote this, all things “superhero” will be the hot trend in springtime fashion. Webbing, latex, primary colors, and space-age sleekness will feature prominently this season. I want to see the “Barbarella” line. Link (via…
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Happy Mothers Day
(via tinylittledivision)
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God Answers Your Questions
In preparation for the release of his new book, The Word of God, author Thomas Disch has revealed himself to be God and is taking questions from the faithful over at his blog. Dear G_d: Could you clarify the order of Creation? There are two different lists in Genesis, and people have died over interpretation.…
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365 Tomorrows
The “flash fiction” site 365 Tomorrows is a collaborative project which presents a new piece of short speculative fiction each day. Contributions come from a combination of staff writers and select submissions from amateur authors around the world, and the site has posted a new piece every day since August 1, 2005. The pieces are…
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Hacking the Ubermind
This isn’t precisely SF-related unless you want to explore the whole somebody-tracking-your-every-move thing (which is a whole ‘nother post), but it’s such an insanely useful little link that I feel the need to showcase it. Bugmenot is a repository of usernames and passwords for sites that require registration. Want to view a story on the…
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I Had a Shoggoth, He Pleased Me…
Comedy musician/Filker Tom Smith has taken the traditional song I Had a Cat… and done something dark and horrible with it. His version is quite wonderful, with in-jokey references to horror and SF movies, and the music is infectious; Shadowboy has begged me to play this over and over and over and over…. You can…
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Awful Songs from “Geek Movie” Soundtracks
Topless Robot has cut loose with a condemnation of the worst 11 songs from geek-friendly movies such as Superman and Men in Black, and they do not spare the mouth froth. Say what you will about the changes and additions Lucas made to his original trilogy for their Special Editions–even if you didn’t agree with…
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Answer: No
I just saw a strong contender for World’s Most Rhetorical Question on the Yahoo News page, and wanted to share. Holy Grail to crystal skull: Are Indiana Jones’ treks realistic?