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    Image of korybing korybing
    01:04 PM

    In reply to Who is the Sexiest Blue Woman in the Universe?
    Zhaan Zhaan a million times Zhaan.
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    Image of fraying fraying
    12:35 PM

    In reply to Who is the Sexiest Blue Woman in the Universe?
    Poll us, baby. Let's settle it.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    12:55 PM

    @fraying: Is River Tam blue?
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    01:26 PM

    @AngryEddy: No, but she talks about people with blue hands, so that makes her eligible.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12:21 PM

    In reply to Who is the Sexiest Blue Woman in the Universe?
    Compelling evidence that many comic book illustrators have never seen real breasts.
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    12:33 PM

    @BadUncle: or have, and choose to ignore them...
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12:14 PM

    In reply to Who is the Sexiest Blue Woman in the Universe?
    I would say "my wife," but she doesn't want the whole world knowing about her erotic asphyxiation feti--DAMMIT.
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    Image of geekgrrl geekgrrl
    01:47 PM

    @Moff: bravo, sir, bravo. and tell your wife to call me.
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    12:14 PM

    In reply to Who is the Sexiest Blue Woman in the Universe?
    For me it's a tie between Zhaan and Mystique.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12:10 PM

    In reply to Who is the Sexiest Blue Woman in the Universe?
    None of these give me blue balls. There, I said it.
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    Image of Counterglow Counterglow
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Just a shout-out to an old high school librarian who's probably dead now. His last name was Johnson. We called him "Wimpy" because of a slight resemblance to the character in "Popeye". On many occasions, somebody would ask him a question about some topic or other, and he'd not only tell you what books to get and EXACTLY where they were in the library (as in "three shelves down, five from the left"), but the pages and paragraphs of the information you wanted. He couldn't always supply that level of detail, but it was far from uncommon, and he was never wrong as far as I know. And he never sent anybody looking for a book that had been checked out.

    He was a truly astonishing man who worked without fanfare in a nondescript job in a small Canadian high school.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/07/09

    @Counterglow: Okay, way off topic, but fine librarians such as this deserve a shout out. Rock on "Wimpy" Johnson, wherever you may be.

    Io9 Commentariat, SALUTE!!
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    Image of Counterglow Counterglow
    12/08/09

    @Grey_Area: Thanks for getting into the spirit. I was reading about all those methods of accurately storing all kinds of information in your head, and here was a guy who kept a whole library up there.

    Funny...he didn't LOOK like a mentat.
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    Image of hwilam hwilam
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Anne McCaffery's Pern books create an entire catalogue of teaching ballads to remind humanity of the tasks necessary when the red star comes near.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Dan Simmons used the diary bit in Hyperion with the girl who was ageing backwards. That always creeped me out.

    "See you later alligator."
    "In a while crocodile."
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Buckaroo Banzai: write it on your palm, lick your palm, slap your mentor on the forehead so he gets a copy too.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Gundam is only an acronym in alternative universe of Gundam Seed.

    In fact, I'm not sure of where it comes from in classic Universal Century (UC). In UC Lunar Titanium is renamed to Gundarium alloy after being used to armor the Gundam.

    ok. enough Gundam babbling from me.
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    Image of techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    OH GOD TVTROPES

    Thanks io9, for making me fail this semester!!! XD
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/07/09

    @techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte: I freakin love tvtropes. They do such a great job.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte: Someone linked tvtropes in a comic article last week. It totally OBLITERATED my afternoon.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    the 'Method of loci' is, and always will be, the coolest way to remember things...
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @goldfarb: I've never heard of this method before. I wiki'd it, and I have decided that this method, or close to it, got me through high school and college.

    When taking a test, or writing an essay, or even verbally answering something, I would recall various pages in the text, and remember where on the page I had seen it, I.e: pg. 53, 3rd paragraph, 4th sentence. (Even where I had read the passage originally [library, bedroom, etc.]) After that, I could remember the necessary information (or quote) almost verbatim.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/07/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: cool...
    sometimes it's called Cathedral Memory...because everyone knew all the different places in a church (nave, apse, altar etc) they could place items to remember is specifics spots...then just walk through their Cathedral to remember things...
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @goldfarb: I read a book when I was younger about a mage that recalled spells much like Cathedral memory, except it was a Manor house, with multitudes of rooms. I likened it to a real-life version of that.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/07/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: and I think Sagan refers to it in Cosmos...
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    Image of firstofnormalin firstofnormalin
    12/07/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me:
    I do somewhat of the same thing when I'm memorizing lines (especially from Shakespeare--I mean, I swear Old Bill sometimes didn't write English...) Anyway, I visualize where the line is on the page and it jogs my memory. I also learn the last line of two of someone else's speech that leads into mine. I'm finding that now I don't need to know that I know the line--the line is there, even if I can't remember it until I need it. Mostly I use something that's close to hypnosis--progressive relaxation then repeat the line in my head. just before I go to sleep.
    BTW, the guy who's credited with the "memory palace" where objects are associated with furniture, etc. was Simonides of Ceo, back in 500BC.
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    I thought of another one, but I forgot it.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    12/03/09

    In reply to Millennium Predictions That Got Things Right - and Those That Didn't
    Where the hell are the flying cars?
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