What does it say about me that when I followed a link to the website for the upcoming Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction show, I was frustrated that the site had lots of information about (and pictures of) the “girls” who would be reading, but no information about what science fiction they would be reading?
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I don’t know, the story doesn’t make me think aliens or secret rockets… it makes me think UZUMAKI!
(0 Comments)Was He The Last Ottoman?
Saturday, September 26th, 2009I saw a story on Wikinews today about the death a couple of days ago, at age 97, of Ertuğrul Osman, who, according to the story was the last pretender to the throne of the Ottoman Empire. That lead to some fascinating reading about the Ottoman Dynasty (start here) who ran the Empire for more [...]
I would not have believed it.
Monday, July 13th, 2009If I were playing Balderdash, or something similar1 and the term in question was “Paris syndrome” I am reasonably certain I would not guess the actual definition as the one most likely to be true–almost without regard to what the other choices might have been.
Let me get this straight: for a small, but statistically significant [...]
Saturday Night Shotgun Post
Sunday, July 5th, 2009While I’m uploading some MP3s for a music post a little later tonight, let’s do the tab closing dance:
Did you see the story about the scientists who unfroze the blob of 120,000 year old life in the Arctic? I can’t do my usual thing of making the news sound like a creepy SF or Lovecraftian [...]
A Monday Night Gallimaufry
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Let’s see if we can close some of the myriad tabs I’ve opened in the process of trying to catch up with everything that happened in the non-work world while I was off spending time at the Melbourne office:
I’m quite impressed at the 16-year old (from the city where I did my university days) who [...]
See, this is the kind of thing I read popular science articles for: not only do we have single-celled organisms the size of grapes (!), and the seemingly ridiculous possibility that they move under their own power, but the consequent possibility that the entirety of conventional wisdom about the fossil record can be called into question. All in around 7 paragraphs.
(0 Comments)Um… this is not a story in the Onion. This is actual news. Everyone please take a moment to breathe and settle yourselves down–we’re beyond farce at this point: Afghanistan’s only pig quarantined in flu fear
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