http://aperturescience.com/

This morning, if you google Google, the top item is a news story about their sinister ambitions with Chrome.

Agricola, the "new Caylus", made its US debut this week. ( game review )

One hundred years ago today, a stony meteorite iron meteorite alien spaceship piece of antimatter comet black hole stony meteorite exploded in the air above Siberia. Surprisingly few sci-fi stories have been written about the fact that it was directly downrange of the future main Soviet space launch site.

NASA plans to grow asparagus on Mars.

There's a new Wallace and Gromit feature planned. There are spoilers within, but they're hygenically sealed within a tasteful dark background.

http://io9.com/5015717/claymation-science-heroes-wallace-and-gromit-are-coming-back

Today Herman Hollerith, father of the automatic punch card and grandfather of IBM, was born. It is his 3736th birthday.

And Tim Powers, awesome sci-fi author. It is his 16th birthday.

Meme stolen from lots of people, but I will credit rifmeister because he makes a good center of attention.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.

2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.

3. Post them here for everyone to guess.

4. Looking them up is cheating, please don't.

On reflection some of these might be pretty obscure. Thus, #2.

( the quotes )

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