Escape Pod is one of the best sites for truly interesting sci-fi that I have found to date and I recommend it highly.
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Showing posts with label sci-fi. Show all posts
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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Escape Pod is one of the best sites for truly interesting sci-fi that I have found to date and I recommend it highly.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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Belarus secret police used mobile phone operators to rat out regime opponents demonstrating in the streets over a stolen election - Charter97 (via BoingBoing)
"All people who visited the post-election demonstration are known to the police by tracing their mobile phone location. They call on these numbers now and invite people to come for a conversation." Activists beware. They'll be doing that here if they aren't already.
A Philip K. Dick android with loud shirts - Cnet
The speech/mouth synchronization could use some work. The beard needs some gray wisps in it too. But it looks just like him otherwise. The speech is kind of stilted. Witty banter doesn't sound like that. Nice effort, but they need to get back in the lab.
Self-Employment Key to Expanding Rural America’s Revival - NewGeography (Don Macke)
If no one will give you a job then make your own? Easier said than done, but I like the concept.
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power? - Popular Science
That South Korean made Samsung Techwin SGR-1 robot that detects "intruders" and then fires grenades at them would be perfect for the border of the southwestern U.S. Gas to start, rubber balls if they keep coming and frags if they persist. Heh.
What if the Old Republic died and nobody noticed? - Examiner.com/ (via Slashdot)
"When the Patriot Act was first signed in 2001, it was billed as a temporary measure required because of the extreme circumstances created by the terrorist threat. The fear from its opponents was that executive power, once given, is seldom relinquished." Continual war for continual peace.
Schrödinger’s Cat Lady - Escape Pod (podcast) Written by Marjorie James and read by Mur Lafferty
For sci-fi podcast fans who like their physics in the form of cute cat lady stories. Like me.
"All people who visited the post-election demonstration are known to the police by tracing their mobile phone location. They call on these numbers now and invite people to come for a conversation." Activists beware. They'll be doing that here if they aren't already.
A Philip K. Dick android with loud shirts - Cnet
The speech/mouth synchronization could use some work. The beard needs some gray wisps in it too. But it looks just like him otherwise. The speech is kind of stilted. Witty banter doesn't sound like that. Nice effort, but they need to get back in the lab.
Self-Employment Key to Expanding Rural America’s Revival - NewGeography (Don Macke)
If no one will give you a job then make your own? Easier said than done, but I like the concept.
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power? - Popular Science
That South Korean made Samsung Techwin SGR-1 robot that detects "intruders" and then fires grenades at them would be perfect for the border of the southwestern U.S. Gas to start, rubber balls if they keep coming and frags if they persist. Heh.
What if the Old Republic died and nobody noticed? - Examiner.com/ (via Slashdot)
"When the Patriot Act was first signed in 2001, it was billed as a temporary measure required because of the extreme circumstances created by the terrorist threat. The fear from its opponents was that executive power, once given, is seldom relinquished." Continual war for continual peace.
Schrödinger’s Cat Lady - Escape Pod (podcast) Written by Marjorie James and read by Mur Lafferty
For sci-fi podcast fans who like their physics in the form of cute cat lady stories. Like me.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
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The Little M@tch Girl by Heather Shaw is a great story podcast over at the sci-fi podcast website Escape Pod. I really enjoyed it. This is how I commented on it over at EP."I liked this story a lot and see it as a form of parable or cautionary tale trying to serve as a metaphorical mine canary for the rest of society. It is a service that the art form known as sci-fi does especially well in my opinion."
The title is a play on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same name. Like the HCA classic it is the dying hallucination of a troubled young girl succumbing to privation. In the HCA version she is dying from the cold, in the Shaw version of the story she's dying from privation but also psychological torment and hopelessness. I highly recommend it.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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NFL athletes really are modern day gladiators - CNN
Especially looking at the brain and nerve damage they suffer. They'd be better off fighting with swords.
Virg Bernero picks up another endorsements from one of the usual suspects - Detroit News
But the outspoken ex-State Rep and current Lansing mayor strikes me as a Geoffrey Fieger-type but with slightly better manners. And we all remember how Fieger's 1998 run ended, eh? The Democrats really aren't offering us much to chose from this year. (Not that they truly ever do.)
How to overthrow the government: tips from 10 scifi revolutionaries - io9
Hmm...maybe.
Especially looking at the brain and nerve damage they suffer. They'd be better off fighting with swords.
Virg Bernero picks up another endorsements from one of the usual suspects - Detroit News
But the outspoken ex-State Rep and current Lansing mayor strikes me as a Geoffrey Fieger-type but with slightly better manners. And we all remember how Fieger's 1998 run ended, eh? The Democrats really aren't offering us much to chose from this year. (Not that they truly ever do.)
How to overthrow the government: tips from 10 scifi revolutionaries - io9
Hmm...maybe.
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