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Prediction
Charles Stross's next book (described only by title and what it's not here) will concern a system (probably highly-automated with distributed human components (possibly a hijacked altruistic distributed-computing platform) for generating arbitrary, high-quality, realistic pornography featuring arbitrary persons ( Read more... ) -
Glad he didn't get that spot on the bench
Senator Sessions: Unable to distinguish between "should" and "can". -
Annals of the Unsurprising
Everyone said this BEFORE they announced the Chrome browser. Everyone said this WHEN they announced the Chrome browser. Everyone has said this SINCE they announced the Chrome browser.
Now Google says it.
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Remake Madness
Be still my ●Heart. -
pleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuck
My personal-favorite show starting with alien gibberish chanting (yes, more favorite than Farscape) to be remade/rebooted/sequeled (it's not clear).If this goes as well as the BSG reboot, I'll finally get to wear my own version of Emily's actually-very-terrifying Halloween costume. Sadly, this has been a dream of mine for more than a decade, but no ( Read more... ) -
A Link
To a Good Show You're Probably Not Watching. A Recap on the Creator's Blog. -
Why We're Incommunicado
negativeq started feeling sickish on Thursday. By Friday evening she felt terrible. Yesterday, her doc said it's possibly pig plague (though likely not), gave her a course of Tamiflu, and sent her home with instructions to stay there ( Read more... ) -
Fuck You Fox
Schizophrenia is not funny.
Schizophrenia is not heart-warming.
Both of the above go for all mental illness, and quadruply for schizophrenia. -
Old Familiar Faces
With Inu-Yasha finally over, Rumiko Takahashi is writing Rin-ne (which, ht to erinfinnegan is available free at her US website). We're only four chapters in, so I'm not really able to review it, but I can say some things about it.- it is clearly a Takahashi-drawn manga. Very much so.
- It bears certain similarities to Bleach, at least so far. Consider, however, ( Read more... )
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Something unlikely to be cryptic.
As I have mentioned to some of you, I co-have a foodblog. I haven't linked it yet because the co-author didn't post until tonight, but GastronoNY is now past the soft-open stage and is ready for reading.
Come by and comment, won't you?