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#movies Click here to read The Brazilian SciFi Short "Analog" Is Minimalist Cyberweirdness

The Brazilian SciFi Short "Analog" Is Minimalist Cyberweirdness

This creepy-cool trailer for EBBËTO's 25-minute-long film Analog is an agoraphobe's worst nightmare -a machine must keep a man alive during a deep space journey. Unfortunately, the machine begins to reassess its programming, and a lot of symbolic oddness precipitates. More »
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By Cyriaque Lamar
Image of Patrick Kelso Patrick Kelso 03:31 PM

I've been itching to find two movies I saw in the either the late 80s or early 90s with my dad that I can't find now.

The first is about people from the future who are saving people meant to die in plane crashes in the past by transporting them to the future. Ultimately someone causes a paradox and they all escape (to ancient Egypt if I'm not mistaken) It ends with a computer voice quoting Churchill. "This is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning".

The second was about a time traveling cop who comes back to present day somewhere (guessing new york or LA) to find an escaped killer, all I remember about it was he had x-ray goggles and when he needed money he purchased a scratchie after offering the girl in the newsagent half if he won and using the goggles to find a winning ticket.

I was posatitive the movie was called Nick of Time but IMDB disagrees.

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Image of AlexKap AlexKap 03:48 PM

@Patrick Kelso: The first is Millennium (1989).

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Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock 04:16 PM

@AlexKap: MILLENNIUM was based on the John Varley novel by the same name, which was in turn an expansion of his short story "Air Raid".

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Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee 03:14 PM

Total Recall used to be one of my favorite movies...then SyFy ran it into the ground with repeated showings. They seem to show it at least twice a month.

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#television Click here to read Spider-Man Battles Samurai In 1970s TV Stills

Spider-Man Battles Samurai In 1970s TV Stills

In the Seventies, The Amazing Spider-Man aired on CBS, Nicholas Hammond was Peter Parker, and the show's theme song was pornoriffic. Take a trip down memory lane with these photographs from an era when Spidey fought crime in his PJs. More »
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By Cyriaque Lamar
#superart

What If Superheroes Were Elements?

It's Marvel's Avengers as you've never seen them before... Namely, as abstract personifications of elements from the periodic table. Artist Das Chupa is the genius behind this version, and he's given Superman the same treatment here. [Zero Lives]
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By Graeme McMillan
Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler 01:12 PM

Not entirely sci-fi but the website 30 Ninjas made a list of the top ten fighting style. Be warned: Watching these scene will make you look up more awesome fight scenes. I would also the fight from the movie Gorgeous (Chan vs. Allen).

[30ninjas.com]

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Image of AlexKap AlexKap 03:30 PM

@geesejuggler:
This is the only fight scene I'll ever need. It has Brian Bosworth's mullet, an entire wall of exploding Ritz crackers, and a young Gabrielle from Xena.

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When Happy Endings Seem Important, After All

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Here's my terrible, heretical admission about the last season of Lost: I enjoy the flash-sideways. No, wait, that's not it. What I meant to say was: I don't care if they answer all of the questions about mythology or not. More »

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By Graeme McMillan
#china Click here to read Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Google will likely be pulling the plug on Google.cn by the end of the month. According to the web search giant, China's stringent censorship and the hacking of Gmail accounts have driven Google to relinquish 35.6% of China's search market. More »
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By Cyriaque Lamar
#conceptart

Old-Timey Predator Will Joyride Into Your Heart

I say old bean, is that a Yautja on a penny-farthing velocipede? By gum, I haven't beheld such a spectacle since eleventy-twelve! And lo! Our pedal-pushing intergalactic sportsmen totes one of those newfangled heliumized air bladders! What delicious farce! [Gavwoodhouse's Deviant Art page via Superpunch]
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By Cyriaque Lamar
Image of Log1c Log1c 10:24 AM


The iPad is the future of comics, says Foxtrot

[www.foxtrot.com]

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 11:07 AM

@Log1c:

Awesome!

(I've been digging myself in iPad development, so this hits close at home)

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#corot9b Click here to read Is Corot-9b Cool Enough To Be Earth-2?

Is Corot-9b Cool Enough To Be Earth-2?

Scientists have discovered what may be the first exoplanet to mirror Earth's climate, which may be a major breakthrough in the study of planets in other solar systems. More »
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By Graeme McMillan
Image of firstofnormalin firstofnormalin 09:42 AM

I don't get it (That's news?). Here's a quote from an article in the London Times about Baumgartner's upcoming attempt to break the sound barrier in freefall: "...The suit will also guard his ears against the sonic boom he is expected to create when passing the sound barrier at 768mph."
But if he's going faster than sound, won't he leave the boom behind him and not hear it?
[www.timesonline.co.uk]
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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 11:10 AM

@firstofnormalin:

Think of it this way: what happens at the precise moment when his speed equals the speed of sound? For that one moment, the shock wave is right there with him.

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#television Click here to read The Hilarious Lost Recaps Of Someone Who's Never Seen Lost

The Hilarious Lost Recaps Of Someone Who's Never Seen Lost

Even the most ardent Losties find the show inscrutable at times, but can you imagine what Season 6 looks like to someone who's never the show? The wonderfully bemused blog Never Seen Lost tries (and fails) to keep up. More »
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By Cyriaque Lamar
#dccomics

Warners Unveil DC Movie Strategy... Maybe

Click here to read Warners Unveil DC Movie Strategy... Maybe
How to replace a multi-million dollar movie franchise with Harry Potter? Well, if you're Warner Bros., the answer seems to be "Suddenly realize you own a company that's specialized in creating movie franchise IP for years." Enter the DC years... More »
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#doctorwho Click here to read Scarier Monsters And Super-Creepy Doctor/Companion Relationships In New Who?

Scarier Monsters And Super-Creepy Doctor/Companion Relationships In New Who?

The new Doctor Who will see familiar monsters be scarier than even before, according to new showrunner Steven Moffat, and that's not even describing the new Doctor/companion relationship... Mild spoilers ahead. More »
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By Graeme McMillan
Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierD... 06:33 AM

Who are your top 5 favourite Terry Prachett characters and why?

(If you can't keep it down to five that's fine, I'll probably end up going over too when I do it).

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Image of matthewabel matthewabel 06:40 AM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: Ha!

Only five? Well, I am not too outside the box, I feel:

Samuel Vimes
Granny Weatherwax
The Librarian
Leonard de Quirm
The Sweeper, danged if I remember his name (a play on Lao Tzu, isn't it?)

Big fan of Susan as well. My favorite book for straight humor is The Lost Continent, which features none of these characters, but has a joke every other line, and my favorite book(s) outright are probably Night Watch and Thief of Time.

Haven't had a chance at Unseen Academicals, yet. Not the biggest wizard fan, so I don't feel as compelled to read it as I did for Thud.

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Image of atropia atropia 07:06 AM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent:

- Death of Rats
- Angua
- Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler
- Gaspode the Wonder Dog
- Susan

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Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierD... 08:34 AM

@matthewabel: I'm pretty standard too. My five are:

Sam Vimes - because he always does the right thing, even though he knows he's capable of doing both the right thing and the wrong thing.

Granny Weatherwax - for pretty much the same reason. I've read interviews where he says that Granny and Vimes are very similar. I think he's right and I love them (and him) for it.

Susan - I wish I could be like Susan.

Angua - Kick-ass career woman, plus I kind of love her and Carrot together.

Death/Lord Vetinari - I couldn't pick just one. Both do a hard, thankless job that makes them seem like villains at first. But both really have the best interests of the people at heart (even if one of them doesn't technically have a heart) and form relationships that humanize them (Death and Susan, Lord Vetinari and Vimes).

My runners-up (yeah, I'm going way over) are:
Nanny Ogg
Polly from Monstrous Regimen
Archchancellor Ridcully - never acting as smart as he is, mostly to annoy Ponder Stibbons and basically being the anti-Radagast the Brown with a blood thirsty love of killing all woodland creatures is brilliant.

I loved The Last Continent as well. I'm not a huge Rincewind fan, but Terry was on a roll with that book. The god of evolution is definitely on my list of favourite made-up gods.

Picking my favourite books is hard. I tend to love the last one of every series - Thief of Time, Thud!, Carpe Jugulum (I still ain't dead). Special mention also has to go to The Hogfather, Going Postal, Moving Pictures and Night Watch.

Yikes, what a long comment. Getting me started on Terry Prachett when I have some free time is very dangerous.

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Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierD... 08:36 AM

@atropia: My mom loves Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler. My hometown has a market where a vendor sells (no lie) "sausage on-a bun". She can't walk by without cracking up.

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Image of EugeniaBSG EugeniaBSG 08:53 AM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent:

Lord Vetinari
Moist von Lipwig
Pteppic
Brutha (and Om)
Maurice and Greebo (both cats - well, with Greebo most of the time he's a cat)

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Image of CuriousYellow CuriousYellow 02:13 PM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent:

Moist von Lipwig
Magrat Garlick
Archchancellor Ridcully
Ponder Stibbons
Death

I never much thought about it, but I guess I tend to gravitate towards those characters that serve as pawns in the hands of others Machiavellian schemes and also are sort of stand-ins for the reader, observing the chaos around them. That explains Magrat, Moist and Ponder.

Death and Ridcully are just awesome in general and I have no particular reason for their inclusion. I have a friend who will flip through a Pratchett book before reading searching for allcaps so she knows how much Death greatness to anticipate.

Adora Belle Dearheart is also high up on the list as the Moist books are my favourite. I find I like the Night Watch characters more as an ensemble, so I guess that's why I didn't pick any.

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Image of ceti ceti 03/20/10

Just finished reading His Dark Materials. Pretty good although the plot frays into loose end territory by the Amber Spyglass. Was struck as well by the third appearance in recent memory of a plucky and brilliant girl heroine as the central character, and a slightly older male hero as a protector-action dude (Aenea and Raul in Endymion, and Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow in City of Ember).

In Endymion and His Dark Materials, Aenea and Lyra are also messianic characters fighting totalitarian religious authorities.

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Image of themixingitsession themixingitsession 02:34 AM

@ceti: LOVED the series. I always saw Lyra, Mrs. Coulter, and all the other strong female characters in the series as Pullman's response to Susan's fucked up treatment in Narnia.

As someone who's recently also finished reading His Dark Materials, I've been itching to ask someone this: How did you feel about Mrs. Coulter in the end?

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@ceti: I loved those books. They fell into the category of "after I'm done reading them I wish I could go back in time and read them all over again for the first time".

If you're interested in a story about a plucky and brilliant girl heroine without a slightly older male hero I'd recommend the Tiffany Aching Series by Terry Prachett. They're also young adult novels, but I really like them.

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Image of matthewabel matthewabel 06:09 AM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: I second that. Any Pratchett is good with me - and it is refreshing to read a series with strong characters of any gender.

Love his riffs on gender bias in the Watch series.

I'd also suggest any of the Witch books - Wyrd Sisters and on - as books with strong female protagonists, though not youthful necessarily.

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Image of matthewabel matthewabel 06:12 AM

@ceti: I really dug His Dark Materials, but dang, did it seem to fall apart at the end. Everything felt so anti-climactic to me. And the ending drug a bit for me, which was a bit disappointing because the previous books were so imaginative and exciting.

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Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierD... 06:24 AM

@matthewabel: Agreed. Terry Pratchett writes amazing characters period (I always comment on his female characters because it's so rare for anyone to write them well, but he does an amazing job with both genders).

I just love how all his characters are given depth, something you wouldn't expect in books that are described as mostly satire.

Alright, this is about to turn into a post of me gushing about Terry Prachett. Maybe I should start my own comment tread.

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Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierD... 06:28 AM

@matthewabel: It was kind of a surprise how anti-climatic the big Adam and Eve moment was (although I don't really know what I was expecting it to be). But I'm a huge sap sometimes, so it didn't really bother me. I kind of liked how it was something so simple rather than the usual big "I am the hero and I will do something heroic to save the world with my heroics" sequence.

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Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierD... 06:31 AM

@themixingitsession: I couldn't help but feel bad for her at the end (both her and Lord Asriel). Condemned to an eternity of falling in the Abyss? That's pretty rough (and kind of out-weighs any of the evil deeds she committed as far as appropriate punishment goes). I think they both redeemed themselves with their final action.

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Image of ceti ceti 11:40 AM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: Well, Lord Asriel did kill Roger and rip open that hole of the universe, and nothing can top the Oblation Board's evil. Perhaps Lyra's survival and living an ordinary life is redemption enough?

It's funny also, I totally missed Mary Malone's role as the serpent as it was so subtle. The Father Gomez plot line also got lost and was tied up in a perfunctory manner.

That being said, I'm amazed how much the story echoes that of Raul and Aenea's. I think I should make a chart!

I'm disappointed now that the second and third movies will not be made because of the weakness of the first (although, nothing a new edit couldn't repair).

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Image of themixingitsession themixingitsession 03:22 PM

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: Yeah, their fate was pretty cruel. I ended up accepting her despite all her faults, but I can't say the same about Asriel.

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

I'm playing Aliens vs Predator as a marine, on "nightmare" difficulty. The pings on the motion tracker are freaking me the fuck out.

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Image of Roklimber Roklimber 03:02 AM

@Ruthless if you let me:

Ping................. Ping................. Ping.................

Ping........... Ping........... Ping........... Ping........... Ping...........

Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping..... Ping.....

Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping

Better start praying, dude....

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Image of Darklighter Darklighter 03/20/10

How do I follow up last night's choice of Hot Fuzz? Netflix has Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill on Watch Instantly.

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Image of Kevin Howell -The Seen Commentor Kevin Howell -The Seen Commentor 03/20/10

@Darklighter: I like to follow up Hot Fuzz with Point Break so that I can laugh really hard when he shoots his gun in the air.

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Image of Ruthless if you let me Ruthless if you let me 03/20/10

@Darklighter:

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Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. 03/20/10

@Darklighter: If you haven't already decided, yes, Eddie Izzard is almost always the correct choice.

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Image of Darklighter Darklighter 03/20/10

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Duh!

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Image of Bobbobins Bobbobins 03/20/10

@Darklighter: Can't I just reply to all? That's what I really want, but it doesn't work that way atm... Yes to Eddie Izzard. He is a wonderful, smart and funny man. Challenging idiots and showing them up for what they are simply by being himself.

Bobbobins - far too late to be of any relevance and really, really needing to go to bed. A bit like life..... :)

Sleep...... zzzzzzzzz

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Image of matthewabel matthewabel 06:13 AM

@Darklighter: Did this happen?

I typically follow up Hot Fuzz with Hot Fuzz. Why not, you know?

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