Topics pertaining to science fiction and/or fantasy, in book, TV show, or movie formats.
(Very NSFW, due solely to repeated F-bombs in the chorus.) GoddessJ sent me a link to this video, with the comment “someone who truly appreciates SF.” Apparently so. (There was a picture on the blog she discovered this on, of Ray Bradbury watching it. Apparently he got quite a kick out of it. As well …
This video (safe for work) is just plain freakin’ funny. Watch out for the cameo of the “Unspeakable Horror.” 😀
Apple’s “Time Machine” backup just got a lot more interesting. I’d buy one of these in a heartbeat.
This is excellent news in and of itself — but it’s also one of the key technologies needed for direct neural connections. 🙂
I love it. Now if we can just make it obsolete… 😉
As the last sentence in the description says: The Klingons have a word for this, most often translated as “trying too hard.” 🙂
I think I’m jealous of future generations. They’ll grow up with all this neat technological stuff that we’re just hearing about now, like the ability to regrow a damaged joint in your own body. The stuff of science fiction to us will be taken for granted by them. On the other hand, they’ll have to …
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This book sounds hilarious. I’ve always been a sucker for fiction mixing the physical world with a fantasy world. Things like Joel Rosenberg’s Guardians of the Flame series, in which a group of D&D players are transported to what they thought was their fantasy world by their professor-slash-Dungeon-Master, who turns out to be a wizard …
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robots.txt is a file used by convention to tell web spiders (systems like those at Google or Microsoft that “crawl the web,” indexing files for their search engines) to ignore certain files. It seems that someone at Last.fm has a geeky sense of humor… User-Agent: * Disallow: /music? Disallow: /widgets/radio? Disallow: /show_ads.php Disallow: /affiliate/ Disallow: …
Sometimes I think Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) is just throwing outrageous stuff out there on his blog, to provoke reactions. I can’t tell if this article, on getting rid of cash and making all financial transactions digital, is one of those though, or if he truly believes that it’s possible. It would offer …