And now, an entry from Crazy Eddie's Motie News that I can't believe I didn't cross post over to DW and LJ. It's exactly the kind of thing I used to post over here regularly. Seven months later, here it is, Finally, a Ringworld movie!

I've been a huge fan of Larry Niven's Known Space ever since I watched The Slaver Weapon. I thought the Kzinti ( Read more... )

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One of the favorite anti-tax memes that conservatives use is that "the government thinks it knows better how to spend money than individuals/the people do." I think that meme has it exactly backwards. First, the government in a democratically elected government is the people. Second, what government is doing when it spends is paying salaries of ( Read more... )

Suburbia: What a Concept
By ALLISON ARIEFF

There is no more iconic suburb than Levittown, the postwar planned community built by the developer William Levitt in the late 1940s, so it is understandable that in launching Open House, a collaborative project to imagine a “future suburbia,” the Dutch design collective Droog in collaboration with Diller ( Read more... )

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Time to repost another comment I originally posted elsewhere. This week it's one from N.Y. Magazine, who was quoting CNN: Sarah Palin’s Expertise in Human Communication to the Rescue

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree."
I had the following to say about that.

If Palin wants to ( Read more... )

Over Thanksgiving weekend, my source for archeology stories on Daily Kos sent me so many stories about crime and neglect in archeology that I put them all together in the first comment (called the tip jar) of my Daily Kos Science Saturday diary last night and titled it "Tip Jar and Science Crime Scenes." It could have been bigger. A couple of the ( Read more... )

From the election on Tuesday to Olbermann's suspension on Friday (note to MSNBC, GE, and Comcast: the surest way to piss off Americans is to mess with their favorite entertainment; Anonymous didn't start going after Scientology because Scientology was evil, they went after the institution because they took a Tom Cruise video off YouTube, ( Read more... )

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As I was reading one of Vanity Fair's two recent articles on Sarah Palin, quite a few things struck me, both serious and silly. I'm saving the serious ones for another post. This entry is for the silly ones.

The first silly item that struck me was this blurb about her shoes.

An Amazon.com store called the North Star Group, maintained by a Palin ( Read more... )