Joanna Russ has died.

Saaaaaaaaaaaaad.

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Doctor Who's Elisabeth Sladen dies, age 63.

That would be Sarah Jane. Apparently she had cancer.

Saaaaaaaaad.

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Hey, remember when you used to like the Pern series? And remember how you spent a large portion of high school on PernMUSH? (Uh, that one might just be me.) And remember how they made a Pern computer game and it kind of sucked but you played it anyway because it was Pern? And remember how the WB was going to have Ronald D. Moore make a Pern TV show ( Read more... )

CANNOT CEASE PLAYING TINY WINGS ON IPOD TOUCH STOP

SEND HELP STOP

PROBABLY DON'T SEND THE ANGRY BIRDS GAME EITHER STOP

I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD REPLACEMENT ADDICTION STOP

Also, from this list of Sci-Fi Children's Books, please enjoy Goodnight Dune. (Link via MetaFilter, whose commenters do a good job pointing out all the things you may ( Read more... )

Hey interwebs! If you are interested in having even more shiny distractions than you already have, PopCap Games is giving away Bejeweled 2 Deluxe for free until 10:00 pm PST, which is, uh, five and a half hours from right now ( Read more... )

Via Metafilter a couple days ago, I bring you the US Army's official comic book explaining Don't Ask Don't Tell. Should that link not work, you can get your very own pdf at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln's Government Comics Collection. It's on page 2 as "Dignity and Respect: A Training Guide on Homosexual Conduct Policy ( Read more... )

I seem to have very little to say about the content of Caprica. Currently I am for some reason squeeing about Tauron culture, as embodied by Sam Adama, whose name I keep trying to read as a palindrome. He has a little springy bull on the dashboard of his car! He has tattoos with an actual backstory! It is awesome! He is also gay and not evil! (The ( Read more... )

My question, O Internet Oracle: Why are there so many vids to "What About Everything?" by Carbon Leaf? I understand there being a lot of vids to popular songs or artists. I understand why there are a lot of vids to Sarah McLachlan or Linkin Park or "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls. But I've never heard of Carbon Leaf other than this song, and I've never ( Read more... )

After making my last post, I idly began to wonder if I could actually get myself a duffle coat like the coat I once had, except ideally better because I didn't have an actual one and I'd want something winter-weight. (Well, not necessarily *winter*-winter. I have what I call my Sith Lord coat for temperatures of below about 20 F -- yes, I am still ( Read more... )

For the past couple days I've been a little bit obsessed with the music of Movits!. They were on the Colbert Report a few weeks ago, and then I totally forgot about how I wanted to buy their album on iTunes until a couple of days ago. But I remembered, and it is awesome ( Read more... )