SF and Vikings, surely you can't go wrong?

Outlander

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Being somewhat trained in science I'm used to things I read having more than one author and to try to interpret who did what from how the names are listed on the paper ( Read more... )

I've watched Transformers: Rise of the Fallen and man, was that a seriously clunky movie. Lots of robots, lots of crashing and exploding and generally quite dull and silly. How can you spend all that money and 2.5 hours of film time with so little to say? It's almost an achievement in itself.

The Guardian's Joe Queenan on movie novelisations. Hilarious!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5540634/Phoenix-crop-circle-may-predict-end-of-the-world.html

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I'm not exactly a sucker for classic education, but I do believe that there is a certain amount of Source Books one should read in one's life in order to be able to form an own opinion about what the world is like. Anyway, in order to be a bit more updated on the religious source material for the West I've started to go through Augustine's City of ( Read more... )

Sweden's Internet traffic dropped 33% yesterday.

Guess why.

Yes, it is time!

Screamers II: The Hunting

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From james_nicoll's journal I note that the Libertarians are out finding targets for the Hall of Fame award.

http://www.lfs.org/2009HoFFinalists.html

This year, both Kipling and Tolkien are in. (It's the Libertarian Futurist Society, to be specific. Tolkien and Kipling!You vaguely feel ( Read more... )