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Ridley Scott brings back his Blade Runner scribe to adapt The Forever War - io9

Hmm...maybe it'll turn out better than BR did. The closer it stays to the book the better off the movie will be, IMHO.

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Amazon fires all it's Colorado affiliates rather than be the gov's tax-collector - Ars Technica

Why so many corruption scandals coming out of NY lately? - Bloggingheads.tv (Megan McArdle & Mark Schmitt)

Adam Savage of Myth Busters! likes to build Blade Runner pistols as a hobby. - Boing Boing

Some really interesting pics of the pistols he's built over the years.

A New Atheist with some big balls - Slate (Christopher Hitchens)

What makes Hitchens stand out is the way that he takes on Islam head-on rather than the rest of that ilk that takes potshots only at Christianity (which is largely a spent force in the world) and gives Judaism, Buddhism and the rest of the world's religions a pass.

A death-row killer who'll probably out-live us all - LA Weekly

This guy has been sentenced to death three separate times and has been convicted of killing four people. And California will never execute him. He's been languishing on death-row since the 80's. Just sentence him to life without parole and be done with him.

90 % of NYC nannies paid off the books. - NY Post

What a surprise. The rich folks don't want to bother with the taxes and paperwork involved and the nannies are left with a low wage job, but with no taxes taken out so they keep it all.