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BARBARA: Stop. I, Yetaxa, command you. There shall be no more blood spilt.
MAN: You have denied me honour.
TLOTOXL: Honour us then with your death.
(So the man jumps off the platform instead of having his heart cut out. In the distance, the thunder rumbles)
TLOTOXL: With death came rain.
BARBARA: Without your sacrifice came rain.
TLOTOXL: Does ( Read more... )

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/debt-growth-and-the-austerity-debate.html?hp&_r=1
  I would respect Reinhart and Rogoff more if they were up-front about the fact that their 90% "cliff" comes from the fact that they chunked debt into 30-percentage-point buckets. If they'd chosen 25% the cliff would have come at 100%. And I would respect ( Read more... )

Terry Nation's favourite approach to starting a story is to have the TARDIS crew arrive on a new planet that's deceptively beautiful but has one vital difference from the Earth: the petrified forest of Skaro, the man-eating plants of Kembel, the invisible aliens of Mira, the man-eating plants and invisible aliens of Spiridon… okay, so it's not a ( Read more... )

In episode 4, Ping-Cho, Susan's friend, pledged in marriage to a Chinese nobleman, has been told to travel separately from Susan. "You will be leaving," she says. "Will you say good-bye to me before you leave? Even if it is very late?" That last question is the killer: Ping Cho is still a little girl at heart, having the last thing she loves taken ( Read more... )

After a harrowing time, the Doctor apologises to Barbara for his behavior. Or at least that's how popular legend has it. Find episode 2, and go to the final scene, and see what you think.
What I love about this scene - or maybe love is the wrong word… what holds my attention in this scene is the way both the scene itself, and the Doctor within the ( Read more... )

A thing to love about The Daleks

Here are the Daleks getting Susan to write a letter to the Thals so they can lure them into their city and kill them. (Video is on YouTube, is only 25 seconds, may count as fair use, may not -- we'll see).

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Carole Ann Ford's giggle on "SU-SANN" isn't just the best thing in The Daleks, it's probably the best thing ( Read more... )

Well, seeing as how it's the fiftieth anniversary year, let's make an epic overcommitment: one post a day about each Doctor Who story pointing out a thing to love about it, in spirit of Celebrate, Regenerate. And! Trying not to pick something everyone's picked. This will or will not be finished or be good ( Read more... )

• Somerset Space Walk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "The Somerset Space Walk is a sculpture trail model of the solar system, located in Somerset, England. The model uses the towpath of the 22-kilometre (14-mile) Bridgwater and Taunton Canal to display a model of the Sun and its planets in their proportionally correct sizes and distances apart ( Read more... )

• Arcade classic 'Missile Command' has a new high score for the first time in over 30 years | The Verge
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(Thanks to andrewducker and FeedThisToThat)

• Fed stress tests: Fed shouldn't be approving share buybacks.
  "it's here when the bank is profitable and doesn't need a "bailout" that the grift takes place. While the market's on an upswing, you tunnel money out of the firm leaving it overleveraged and exposed to failure in a downswing. Even if you wipe the equity owners out when the failure ( Read more... )