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Look, I can make a better Star Wars remix than George Lucas! (via Big Dumb Object)
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Remember before TiVo and DVR when, like, your little brother taped his Power Rangers over your Clarissa Explains It All? Apparently, in a similar oops, NASA taped over the original Apollo 11 high-quality broadcast tapes. (via Blog, Jvstin Style)
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These horse puppets are the coolest thing ever, and here they are in action. Puppeteers are serious Makers. (via BoingBoing, appropriately)
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Help Patrick Rothfuss come up with a snappy name for his Heifer International fundraiser; he’s looking for something more serious than “Geeks for Goats” and less punny (and punctuationally ambivalent) than Worldbuilders’ Ink/Worldbuilder’s Ink/World…you get the problem.
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Ted Gioia thinks that landing on the moon killed science fiction; Paul Raven at Futurismic takes issue.
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How to be a programmer.
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Battlestar Galactica‘s Richard Hatch is looking to create a television network that focuses on user-generated content. As cool as that sounds, I still can’t look at him without thinking, “I don’t quite trust you.”
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Pink Raygun presents a guide to graphic novels for people who want to keep their snobby English major cred—or who are, like me, too dumb to follow a graphic novel unless they already know the plot.
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Suvudu offers a graphical representation of the difference between classic and modern SF. I’m no expert, but the pie charts do make me nod contemplatively….
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Soon, third parties will be able to make and sell their own tracks for Rock Band! I’m pretty much covered, since all my favorite musicians are aging hippie sellouts anyway, but tech-savvy young bands could really work this. (via BoingBoing)
