Now here's a nice family yacht for a summer cruise. I assume the smooth-bored cannon are working models, for all love!

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The SHADO Moon Hopper. One of my favorite SF vehicles! And...you got to love those purple wigs! SF Babes? That show had SF Babes!

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"Breen. You've managed to import breen from homeworld. How?"

"It .. isn't actually breen."

"But the smell, the taste..."

"It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth."

(Babylon 5, Walkabout)

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Racks of shelves
with books and dangers
wallet emptied.

(Bruce Trinque, writing at The Gunroom, after having purchased a volume on the Titanic and a complete collection of haiku poems by Matsuo Basho!)

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Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

(Alton Brown, Good Eats, "Where There's Smoke, There's Fish")

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An interesting look at those little cubes and other geometric solids that rule the roleplaying game tabletop. Are they "fair"?

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1 It's a small world, Fred. My office (when I'm in it) is just down the hall from Ed's at Wolfram Research.

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2 If somebody starts humming Disney tunes, somebody is gonna get hurt...

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Over at Golden Age Comic Stories, Mr. Door Tree (!) recently completed a series of postings about Metropolis.

He put up several entries about an illustrated version of the novel: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.

He also put up several entries about the film: One. Two. Three. Four. These include some great behind-the-scenes shots.

This follows the recent news that missing footage from the film has been discovered. New DVD coming?

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Pluto Can't Get No Respect and other amusing bits.

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Davis had at no time expressed any particular gratitude, but the fact of the rescue had given him a kind of lien upon his rescuer. Having rescued him, Jack was obliged to provide for him: this seemed to be tacitly admitted by all hands and even Jack felt that there was some obscure justice in the claim. He regretted it, however: Davis was no seaman, although he had spent his whole life afloat, a dull-witted, clumsy fellow, very strong and very dangerous when vexed or drunk, easily vexed and easily intoxicated; and he either volunteered for Jack's various ships or managed to get transferred to them, his other captains being happy to see the last of a troublesome, ignorant, untameable man.

(Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission)

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Hey, look, David Drake is doing a children's book!

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If Team Rocket put as much effort into picking stable stocks as they do in making schemes, they'd be much richer and less bruised.

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Star Wars was around a lot longer than we thought. more...

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Robert A. Heinlein (introduction by John Scalzi): Project Moonbase and Others (Subterranean Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59606-186-6; cover and interior art by Bob Eggleton).

Review found here.

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Marinate some ribs, slap them on the grill, sit back with a gin and tonic...

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...ever happened to Tom Clancy? I mean, there are books "co-written" by him. Which I suspect means they slap his name on the cover, he gets some money for the act, but the writing is done by others.

Long spell of writer's block? I mean its summer...and there ain't no Clancy to read. Hasn't been for years!

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Need advice but find the ramblings of a Jedi Master too straightforward? Ask Kosh!

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Too hot to post anything of startling originality!

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XKCD nails it. Again.

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I'm finally getting over the summer cold.

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I recently acquired a somewhat battered set of the famous Harvard Five-Foot Bookshelf. Supposedly you can get through it all in fifteen minutes a day. Well, I'm not sure how long that will stretch, but it looks like I've got another ongoing reading project coming into play!

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