April 20, 2005

When Fandoms Collide...

Squall at TZ passes on a link to a news story about the most bizarre Civil War re-enactment ever...

Trekkies Vs. Yanks WHO WILL WINS?

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April 09, 2005

Warbots in Korea

Armed robots could be patrolling the South-North Korean border by 2011. Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave.

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March 15, 2005

James Earl Jones is in this one, too!

DUDE.

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February 22, 2005

Nu Wingy Toota Solo!

Playing Knights of the Old Republic. It rocks. I haven't had this much fun playing an rpg in, well, ever (I don't think Deus Ex counts as an rpg, it was more an action hybrid). I don't know, for some reason those fantasy settings don't do it for me. I mean, I've seen elves and orcs and crap, give me a lightsaber!

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January 31, 2005

Oh boy!

A Quantum Leap sequel?! That's crazy talk!

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January 19, 2005

Life Arrives on Titan

William Saletan's brilliant, awe-struck article about the Huygens landing expresses my sentiments exactly about this astonishing journey. In his words:

"Scientists wonder whether Titan is 'prebiotic'—whether it might have evolved like Earth, had Saturn not been exiled to the far reaches of the solar system. They scour the pictures for signs of life.

But there's already a sign of life on Titan. It's the one thing the camera can't show you: itself. Atop the orange landscape stands the corpse of Huygens, eye and emissary of a species that got off the ground of its own planet only 100 years ago and developed personal computers only 30 years ago. Today that species is poring over spectral, chemical, and electrical data from a world a billion miles away."

Why we only hear about this kind of thing in five-minute blurbs at the tail end of newscasts full of ridiculous trivia at best and voyeuristic sludge at worst is something I will never understand.

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