If you are looking for something to read or watch during Apollo 11 week, I wrote a post last year listing some of my favorite books, movies & tv, and web sites about the Apollo-era space program.

To those I would add We Choose the Moon, an interactive web experience retracing the journey of the Apollo 11 astronauts.

There are also a bunch of ( Read more... )

Well, this made me laugh. Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow reports on a new study about what your brain does when you read fiction. "The study concludes that our brains simulate the action in the story, echoing it as we read ( Read more... )

After the premieres show at Vividcon, I was going on and on (and on and on) to astolat and cesperanza about my unqualified love for destina's vid about the space program. Kind enough to let me go on for awhile about Why Space is My Fandom, cesperanza suggested I post some of my favorite geek space stuff.

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o hai!

Plz do not mind me. I am just testing this posting by email thing...

Happy Friday!

~~ sent from my palm centro smartphone ~~

I need a sheep icon, but don't have one. The penguin will have to do (either that or I will use any excuse for the penguin icon).

Anyway -- I am just plain melina (yay!) over at Vox. If I haven't friended you (or whatever they call it) yet, it's because I haven't found you, but if you add me, I'll add you back ( Read more... )

APRIL 29, 2005 -- Melina's publicist, Sherry Busynose, today confirmed rumors that the budding relationship between Melina and Dr. Robert Chase of Princeton, New Jersey, has ended.

The swirling rumors about trouble between the two began several weeks ago, after Melina was overheard whispering to merryish that mathematics professor Dr. Charles Eppes was " ( Read more... )

Way back in the cretaceous period (aka, the beginning of the fall season) I wrote:

As much as I'd like to be enthused about Lost (JJ Abrams, Matthew Fox, Dominic Monaghan, etc. -- and my favorite critic, Matt Roush, really likes it) -- what's the point? It's on ABC, fergoddsake, and I don't think it has a prayer of lasting 13 episodes. And putting ( Read more... )

Matt Roush (my favorite TV critic ever) listed all premiere dates in this week's Ask Matt column, but this is the slightly more fannish version, with most sitcoms and reality shows deleted at my entirely capricious whim.

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...a funny vanity license plate the other night:

NO MUGLS

No kidding :)

My TiVo revealeth the following ( Read more... )