August 2011
“Live on Earth as though you were colonizing Mars.” The same technologies...”
– Karl Schroeder If I had a Billion Dollars - Charlie’s Diary
This may be the only good reason I’ve ever heard to send a manned mission to Mars
July 2011
Why yes, I am sending hordes of work emails at 3am
I went to the premier of Cowboys and Aliens, when else was I going to send them?
therussianrevolver asked: You're always liking my stuff, I appreciate it brother.
“Real isn’t how you are made” - said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens...”
– - Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit - (via maduke)
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A Link to the Past reimagined as a 242-card Magic:... →
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Lost in Translation: The 50 Americanisms That... →
nightline:
As collected by the BBC:
14. I caught myself saying “shopping cart” instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I’ve never lived nor been to the US either.
23. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it” - horrid!
36. Surely the most irritating is: “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.
I'm eating cheese and crackers and drinking wine.
I’m classy like that.
This is one of those days that a hangover would...
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Crime and Punishment | Orbit Books | Science... →
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They're making a Princess of Mars movie?
That’s kind of cool.
I wonder how many people will dismiss it next year as being “Disney does ‘Conan the Barbarian’ in Space”.
It’s really more Tarzan in space. Burroughs may have written more books than I could lift (yes, I know this from experience) but a great deal of them follow the same story. Still, I’m curious about it. It’s adapted and...
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Imagine that, there was violence on The Battle of...
One of the things I like about living in America is that when there’s a Parade it’s (almost always) a happy thing. Instead of something which is going to end in petrol bombs.
I’m proud of where I come from, don’t get me wrong. I’m just tired of watching us kill each other. And I’m tired of watching a place that I love and miss ripped apart by this kind of petty...
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Police: Internet providers must keep user logs |... →
