Sunday links.
* How Neil Armstrong ruined science fiction.
* Increasing cell phone use may be largely responsible for highway fatality numbers that remain static in the face of widespread safety improvements. If you're looking for hyperbolic commentary on this subject, check out Matt Yglesias and the good people at MetaFilter, none of whom have ever used their cell phones while driving, of course not, no sir.
* Curing blindness by implanting a tooth in the eye. Also via MeFi.
* And Buster Bluth stars in Ctrl, about a man who can use keyboard commands to modify his life.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Labels: Arrested Development, blindness, cars, cell phones, Ctrl, medicine, science, science fiction, technology is magic, the Moon, webisodes
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Potpourri.
* Incoming Energy Secretary Steven Chu hates coal. I sort of love this guy.
* The Battlestar Galactica webisodes have started up again.
* "Would you rather be a novel or a poem?" Answer wisely and you could go to Oxford. Via Bookninja.
* Every so often the veil of ideology drops.
* Classic albums get LEGOized.
* 'Whedon: Dollhouse Problems Are My Fault.'
* Ron Moore's promising-sounding Virtuality may never see the light of day.
* The natural history of mythical creatures.
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Labels: Battlestar Galactica, coal, cryptozoology, Dollhouse, Joss Whedon, LEGO, music, Oxford, Ponzi schemes, Ron Moore, scams, Steven Chu, television, Virtuality, Wall Street, webisodes
Saturday, March 15, 2008
I'd thought Farscape ended on a pretty definitive note, but I guess I was wrong: SciFi is apparently bringing the series back in webisode form.
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Labels: Farscape, Internet, nerds, science fiction, television, webisodes