Tuesday, January 30, 2007
links for 2007-01-30
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"Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies has targeted pop princess Britney Spears as a desirable guest star to feature in the next series of the science fiction show." No. No no no no no no no no no no no no. Oh hell no. No.
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They want you. They want you. They want you as a new recruit.
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Dayum! Next time I start to think I have a few too many pieces of antique Apple hardware cluttering up my basement, I'm gonna go back and look at this.
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Frakkin' sweet, for the Gaeta moments if nothing else. But there's more. So much more.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Fudge Packer and Pearl Necklace
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Hard to believe this piece is over a year old.
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If you build it, they will come. In this case, the "it" is the 24-hour glass cube-topped Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Here's a time-lapse Quicktime movie (in segments) of the store's first 24 hours.
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Oh, come on. Everyone loves a pearl necklace.
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Will Billy grow up to be a fudge packer like his dad? Starring Robert Gant, Cady Huffman and Alex Borstein.
Thursday, March 2, 2006
I have to say this comes as something of a surprise…
You scored as
Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo). You have spent your life trying to live up to and impress your Dad, shame he never seemed to notice. You are a stickler for the rules. But in matters of loyalty and honour you know when they have to be broken.
What New Battlestar Galactica character are you?created with QuizFarm.com
I would have settled for being Boomer, if only to get rack time with both Helo and the Chief. Ah well, if I must be Commander Hottie, I suppose I must.
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Assorted bookmarks and braindumps
Sunday, July 24, 2005
A toast to the toasters
I came a bit late to the new
Battlestar Galactica series on the Sci-Fi Channel, only really catching up with the show when the network ran a marathon of the entire first season a few weeks ago, and then receiving the initial miniseries from NetFlix to fill in the blanks. But it's quickly become a favorite (and a TiVo season pass), in many ways more than assuaging the melancholy that set in when
Star Trek: Enterprise left the air, leaving me without any more adventures of the United Federation of Planets crews to look forward to.
So I was interested to read a little more about the genesis of the series, and it's transformation from its kitschy 80s roots in the
New York Times last week:
Ron Moore's Deep Space Journey.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the new series mythology (literally) is its under- and overtones of religious dogma, which raise all sorts of ethical and moral questions. A couple of articles from
Beliefnet give
BSG a faith-based consideration:
Born-Again Battlestar: "Unbeknownst to most viewers, 'Battlestar Galactica' has been steeped in religion since its very inception. First pitched by uber-producer Glen A. Larson as a series of Bible stories set in space called 'Adam�s Ark,' the reworked 'Battlestar Galactica' was also influenced by another religious book: the Book of Mormon. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Larson borrowed plot points from his faith's sacred texts."
The Souls of Cylons: "The parallels between the Cylon beliefs and fundamentalist Christian beliefs, yeah, there are certain aspects of it there, but there�s also the roots of the drama, also contains things such as Al Qaeda�s use of its religious practice to justify what it does. That�s part of who the Cylons are too, they aren�t just really stalking horses for fundamentalist Christianity."
July 24, 2005 at 7:17 PM
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