assorted betwixts and betweens
I’m not sure I have anything to say about this, but while Philip K. Dick was kinda crazy, sometimes crazy is kinda right:
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. George Orwell [...]
This makes me happy:
BBC Wales and BBC Drama has announced that Bafta and Hugo Award winning writer Steven Moffat will succeed Russell T Davies as Lead Writer and Executive Producer of the fifth series of Doctor Who, which will broadcast on BBC One in 2010.
[From BBC - Doctor Who - News]
The recent Doctor Who episode, “The Doctor’s Daughter” is arguably the worst episode produced since the show’s return in 2005. So disappointing that I had to blog about it, even with the attendant risk that I might confirm the suspicions of people who don’t like the show. I mean, it’s one thing to complain about [...]
Darknote provides an excellent analysis of some of the problems and failures of the new Doctor Who series. If you are a fan, definitely give it a read.
In the history of the revived Doctor Who series, there have been ten multi-episode stories thus far. If we classify these multi-episode stories into three rough categories of [...]
The chain, sadly, does not remain unbroken. But I’m averaging exercise five times a week. Sometimes the gym, sometimes getting off at Dekalb Ave & walking, briskly, home, sometimes doing aerobics at home, and sometimes going for a walk up to Prospect Park. While I do not have an unbroken chain of Xs on my [...]
Just not the Starbuck you might be thinking of! In honor of Battlestar Galactica’s return tomorrow–and by honor I mean this is just very damn funny in light of the new series–I offer you “The Return of Starbuck” from Galactica: 1980
Sorta like a car accident: you don’t want to watch, but you can’t look away. [...]
Take the Earth, place it in a kind of time bubble that slows our time down to an infinitesimal crawl compared with the rest of the universe and shut out the stars and you create a world that poses a highly unique set of challenges to the characters involved. Sort of like the whole world [...]
While I haven’t read any of his work in years, Clarke’s novels had a major impact on my teenage imagination, from Childhood’s End to Rendezvous with Rama, he made the universe wonderful even if, at times, it might be challenging or even frightening to our fragile human minds and egos. Ars Technica has a fitting [...]
An exciting development in the fight against HIV/AIDS:
Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, says his team has identified a gene called TRIM22 that can block HIV infection in a cell culture by preventing the assembly of the virus.
“When we put this gene in cells, it prevents the assembly [...]
SciFi Scanner is AMC’s science fiction blog (yes, that AMC) and Mr. Clayton Neuman was kind enough to link to my recent post about the movie version of Stardust in the Daily Scan for February 19.
SciFi Scanner’s my new best friend and I’m adding them to my blogroll as I type this.
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Also, the most excellent [...]
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(He is also wondering if this constant referring to himself in the third person might be a sign of mental disturbance. Nahh, he's sure he is just fine and dandy.)
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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