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Analytics According to Captain Kirk

2007 Aug 17, 10:40Analytics applied to red shirt phenom.PermalinkCommentsvia:infosthetics humor statistics scifi startrek television visualization data analysis

Even if Life Is a Computer Simulation . . . - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog

2007 Aug 15, 2:33Accelerando had interesting stuff on this. I'm also reminded of the argument against time travel: If time is infinite and time travel is possible then we should be overrun with time travelers.PermalinkCommentsphilosophy science simulate scifi article

Awesome Movies Unknown to Me

2007 Aug 12, 2:50Thanks to Netflix I've been able to enjoy several movies that I'd never heard of.



Brick is a classic PI film set in a modern high school. Its fun figuring out which high school students correspond to which film noir archetypes.

Primer is a sci-fi movie but it doesn't focus on action or effects. Its like watching an excellent Twilight Zone episode. I hate to describe this any further for fear of giving something away.

The Amazing Screw-On Head is an animated version of the one shot comic. It feels like the 1800s precursor to the The Venture Bros. and stars Screw-On Head, a steam-punk robot head thing and Abe Lincoln's top spy for occult matters.

The Quiet Earth is the movie version of the book about a man who awakes one day to find himself alone(... or is he?) It was made in the 80s and in Australia but don't hold that against it.PermalinkCommentsscifi primer movie amazing screw-on head personal netflix brick the quiet earth

blog.pmarca.com: Top 10 science fiction novelists of the '00s -- so far

2007 Jun 17, 10:46List of interesting scifi writers of the current century. I really enjoyed AccelerandoPermalinkCommentsblog fiction scifi literature book shopping

The Coming Technological Singularity

2007 Jun 17, 10:40FTA: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could dePermalinkCommentsai article human intelligence internet philosophy evolution essay scifi technology science future singularity

Paleo-Future

2007 Jun 5, 12:30Interesting past predictions of the future. Lots of cool retro visions of the future.PermalinkCommentsfuture humor predictions history scifi archive blog monthly

Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Finale Sountrack (Bear McCreary's Blog)

2007 Apr 2, 12:04Bear McCreary creates the soundtrack for Battlestar Galactica. In this blog entry he talks about creating the cool piece for the season 3 finale. (Spoilers in the article)PermalinkCommentsbear-mccreary blog article bsg music scifi battlestargalactica battlestar

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

2007 Mar 27, 4:58A book by Cory Doctorow available for free via Creative Commons. I finished this very recently. Its very ... different. I understand but I don't comprehend.PermalinkCommentsbook books fiction scifi free cory-doctorow read

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

2007 Jan 22, 7:06Essay putting Chewie and R2D2 as key figures of the Rebel Alliance. Reconsidering ep 4 in light of 1-3. Its easy to put words in the mouth of the characters we can't understand.PermalinkCommentsstarwars movies analysis humor essay article nerd nerds scifi

Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories

2006 Oct 26, 9:23Famous authors create six word short stories.PermalinkCommentsarticle cool book fiction humor literature story scifi

Andart: Warning Signs for Tomorrow

2006 Oct 20, 4:10Warning Signs for the threats of the future.PermalinkCommentshumor design art article blog images scifi

"0wnz0red" - Salon

2006 Sep 25, 1:06Short StoryPermalinkCommentsbooks fiction programming scifi story read cyberpunk short-story cory-doctorow

Accelerando

2006 Jul 31, 12:14Neal Stephenson + Technological SingularityPermalinkCommentsbooks scifi free book fiction

The Infinite Matrix

2006 Jan 2, 3:51Sci-Fi stories, reviews, and essays.PermalinkCommentsscifi free literature english

Darmok (episode) - Memory Alpha

2005 Sep 4, 3:24PermalinkCommentsscifi tv startrek

Main Page - Memory Alpha

2005 Sep 4, 3:24Star Trek EncyclopediaPermalinkCommentsencyclopedia reference scifi startrek tv nerds search

Goddesses by Linda Nagata

2005 Sep 4, 3:16Hard SF short story "Goddesses" by Linda NagataPermalinkCommentsscifi story free literature fiction
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