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Say Hello To Smallville's Veteran Superheroes

Say Hello To Smallville's Veteran Superheroes #smallville #television

5 Lessons We Hope RTD's Learned From His Past Doctor Who Epics

5 Lessons We Hope RTD's Learned From His Past Doctor Who Epics #doctorwho #russelltdavies

"The Road" Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse

"The Road" Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse #moviereview #theroad

Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999

Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999 #stealthispitch #space1999

Captain Kirk And Batman Team Up In Ancient Greece

Captain Kirk And Batman Team Up In Ancient Greece #thanksgivingleftov #alexanderthegreat

Six Things I'm Thankful For In Science Fiction

Six Things I'm Thankful For In Science Fiction #rant #doctorwho

Awesome 1980s Retro Satanism in "House of the Devil"

Awesome 1980s Retro Satanism in "House of the Devil" #moviereview #houseofthedevil

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    Terry Pratchett vs. the Global Economic Crisis

    Making Money, Terry Pratchett's Nebula-nominated, thirty-somethingth novel in Discworld series, could be a subtitled, "a comic fantasy on contemporary themes," ie the large-scale consensual fraud that is a banking system. More »
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    Nerd and Anti-Nerd

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    Michael Chabon, Matt Fraction, and the Nerd Cultural Insurgency (NCI)

    I made it to the Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policemen's Union) and Matt Fraction (Casanova) dual appearance at Wondercon, which was well worth it for anyone into literary comics - or comic-bookish literature. More »

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    Spore's Creature Creator Lets You Seed the Galaxy with Life

    Spore, the upcoming 6+-years-in-the-making project from Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims, and Sim everything else) is releasing its fabulous alien species design tool, the Creator Creator today as a free download. Spore is Sim-Rise-of-Intelligent-Life-In-The-Galaxy, and it is a fountain of scifi awesomeness. I've followed Spore’s development for a long time, and feel licensed to talk about what I’ve seen and speculate irresponsibly about what I haven’t. (I should disclose at this point that periodically I work as a freelance game designer for Electronic Arts, which owns Maxis, which makes Spore.) More »
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