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Listen Up -- We've Got 11 Classic Scifi Audiobooks

Books on tape might be extremely dead technology, but iPods and eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle have reanimated the medium and turned audiobooks into the commuter's wonder drug. When the book is read well, you'll find yourself sitting mesmerized in your parking space just listening, instead of heading into work. Check out our list of eleven classic scifi audiobooks, and listen up. More »

11:00 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,356 views, 30 comments

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Your Subway Car Wants Kill You

What do you get when you combine a sentient, artificially intelligent subway train (starring Emma Clarke, the voice of the London Underground and Keanu Reeves) with Speed and Titanic? It turns out you get "Sentient Subway," a hilarious Hollywood movie pitch that needs a bit of work on its title. However, having heard this whole pitch, I'm going to go out on a limb and say... it ain't half bad. We'd take a ride on it. In fact, we're all for sentient every mode of transportation: bicycles, cars, roller skates, scooters. Just not buses. Those things are filthy.

2:40 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Kevin Kelly
661 views, 14 comments

Latest by strider_mt2k: @omg-ponies: Thanks to you I've gotten a quick Portal education via Wikipedia and I can't get that song "Still Alive" out of my head. Cool looking game. more »