Wow, today’s the day. Episode IV was released 30 years ago today! Remember the good ol’ days? You know the movie where Han shoots first? Poor Greedo, he didn’t see it coming.

I am celebrating by dressing up as Yoda and running around Union Square telling people the force is strong within them. Ok, I’m not [...]

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UPDATE 2: See some Season 2 finale thoughts.
So recently I’ve been finding out that there are people in the world that think that Heroes is a better show than Battlestar Galactica. I know, crazy, right? Don’t get me wrong I love Heroes, I think it’s a great show and I watched it with great religion, [...]

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Wow, the official Transformers trailer is now out. I must admit that it does look pretty awesome. I really like how the transformers move and how they transform - when one of the planes transforms as it’s landing and skids down on the ground - that’s some good stuff. I still don’t love how fidgety [...]

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So, I posted a bit ago on our little globe is rushing headlong into Snow Crash-land - on a few fronts. The obvious one was the Metaverse and how the Web and MMO’s are slowly approaching Neal Stephenson’s view of online interaction.
His view of cyberspace was a unified, non-traditional gaming environment with a low-tech [...]

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Hey, so I have been extremely not-excited for the Bionic Woman remake, simply because it just didn’t seem interesting. But I mosey’d on over to scifichick’s posting on it (where she has some youtubes of the pilot) where several things were duly discovered.
First of all, Starbuck’s in the pilot! So you know that’s awesome. A [...]

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Jalopnik is showing some more press shots of the soon to come Transformers live-action movie. It’s pretty cool that the ever mocked Bumblebee is going to look all badass, I hope he gets to be badass, too. I mean, if you’re a transformer how do you live down a beating by a VW Bug named [...]

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I guess that’s good. Although, I’m beginning to notice a streak here… on the heels of the last Ok Cupid test I took in which I discovered I’m a pure geek, I now find that I got a 58 on my nerdiness score on the Heroes Personality Test (care of max hubris).
In fact I scored [...]

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I found out about Manna from Heaven a bit ago and when I was stymied in trying to get Betancourt’s Amber and Chaos, I felt the need for some more time in Amber and Manna from Heaven promised a few short stories in the setting. I’d settle for some crumbs from the master.
So I haven’t [...]

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I wrote a bit before on what I think of as the snow-crashification of the world. It’s happening on a few fronts, oddly enough for such an extreme vision, but one of them was the privatization of infrastructure. So I came across another article in BusinessWeek about this very topic that I found pretty interesting [...]

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So I was watching the cables last night and I don’t really remember what it was, maybe some commercial, but it had me thinking about Cibo Matto and Cibo Matto always makes me think about Buffy. Cibo Matto is fairly directly responsible for my love of that show.
Let me ’splain you. I have a theory [...]

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