After a couple of kind of boring challenge episodes Katie picks Abby and Tavis to head off to the elimination zone. Who will win? Who will talk the most smack back to Mike and Jerry? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2eV_crEIR0?rel=0] Spoilers ahead!
Another great talk from Cory Doctorow on the nature of the Internet and its relationship to society. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqx_1tDyqE?rel=0] You might also be interested in this recent interview between Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow hosted at Slate: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90987701″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
I just watched the archives of Space Janitors which is a pretty funny send up of a lot of popular science fiction films. The second season started in April and it updates every couple of weeks. The most recent episode parodies Han Solo and Chewie from Star Wars: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOokxE72E3M?rel=0]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4?rel=0&w=599&h=449] I still remember how awesome it was seeing Clash of the Titans in the theater and Jason and the Argonauts on the teevee.
Today’s episode was Maki versus Amy. Two good comics; only one really nails the ideas of Mermaid and Ukelele selected from the wastebasket of ideas. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf_aB1q103s?rel=0] Spoilers after the jump!
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Game of Thrones is the first novel in the A Song of Fire and Ice saga and the teevee series adapting that string of novels. But you know that, everyone knows that. The popularity of this story is surprising to me; clearly the HBO teevee adaptation had a lot to do with it but it seems like the novels had gathered a lot of steam on their own. I only read the novels last year and only just now, thanks to the free “preview” of HBO on the local cable system for a few months, have I caught the first …
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