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Today, I was reading in the paper about a local band calling itself "The Olympic Hopefuls" which, receiving a C & D from the USOC, changed its name, quite simply, to the hopefuls. It seems that "Olympic" was trademarked in a 1950 Congressional act ( Read more... )

A couple of people (mud_in_your_eye and c_eagle) have asked me about my avatar. When I tell them that I just drew it one day, and threw the Starfleet Insignia on his shirt to break up the monotony, and then colored it red 'just because,' they always seem unsatisfied. So, although you'll never find me in one of them "Multi User Hissy Fits," and I probably won't ever ( Read more... )

the_gneech raised some interesting questions the other day regarding the paradigmatic shifts between the world of Star Trek, The Original Series and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and their more contemporary successors like ST:TNG and SW:Attack of the Clones. The question boiled down to why are we no longer offered Scifi in which Good triumphs over Evil, ( Read more... )