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Remakes that don’t need to be made but are being made anyway

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I offer the following as proof that Hollywood not only does not care about us, but actively hates us with an intense fiery passion, and laughs at us because we continue to fall for their shenanigans. V. Apparently NBC has been working on a remake of the brilliant 80′s science fiction invasion miniseries, only this [...]

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Book Review: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon

Monday, July 28th, 2008

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon ISBN: 978-1400032716 Published May 2004 by Vintage [rating:5] I first saw this book on the shelves when Jennifer and I visited Ireland in May 2006. When we got back I started seeing it on the shelves in America as well. Everybody kept recommending [...]

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Fly Me to a Flying Suborbital Space Platform…

Monday, July 28th, 2008
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Today, Virgin Galactic unveiled their new spacecraft: the WhiteKnightTwo, christened “Eve” in honor of company founder Sir Richard Branson’s mother. Eve is the ferry craft that will deliver SpaceShipTwo and its passengers and payloads into space. Or at least to very high altitudes. Naturally, I think this is damn cool. I doubt that I’ll ever [...]

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Plants with Eyes

Inspired by our recent trip to Safari West (where we got to play “Keeper for a Day”, which is why I got to hand feed a giraffe) and by watching The Mist, I’ve been amusing myself lately speculating about future directions of life on the surface of the Earth. Mostly I’ve been thinking about how [...]

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