Yahoo! News - Myth Dispelled: Shoe Size, Penis Size Not Linked

Wired 10.10: Start

I Fought the Future for the CIA

True story - Wil McCarthy was asked to recreate the scene from FootFall. The government calls in science fiction writers as far out scenario experts after we are attacked.

How about another meaningless test?

I'm The Lord of the Rings Character Test!

I like to think that everyone is really a character in my strange fictional world - I don't care if no-one outside it has a clue what I'm on about.

Click here to find out which test you are!

Scotland's Depraved
For no particular reason, I'll like to remind people that Scotland's depraved.

New Scientist
Lorenzo's oil finally proven to work


The controversial do-it-yourself medicine that inspired the heart-rending movie Lorenzo's Oil has finally been proved to work. The new research ends years of uncertainty about the treatment and demolishes the claims of experts who repeatedly said it was a worthless quack remedy.

news.telegraph.co.uk - Zen gardens and the art of invisible trees

Can rocks and gravel stimulate the unconscious mind?

"Spirited Away"

Japanimation godhead Hayao Miyazaki takes a deranged and delightful voyage to the other world, where parents become pigs and the Radish Spirit rides the elevator.

He is the greatest animated director - Porco Rosso is one of my favorite films. What is it about? It is about someone transformed into a pigman, or maybe "about an Italian Air Force pilot who left the service due to the rise of fascism. He became a bounty hunter, assuming the name 'Porco Rosso.' "

Most people love Princess Mononoke and Laputa: The Castle in the Sky.

And this will be in Houston soon:

Texas - Houston » Oct 4, 2002
Friday

Cinemark 18
20915 Gulf Freeway
Webster, TX 77598
281-332-8400

BTW, one of the highest rated in Rotten Tomatoes history : 99% Fresh.

Chase Masterson Hosted the Sexiest Geek Alive 2002 in Austin


I like Leeta.

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Home
I hope to go there someday.

Yahoo! News - 'Rampant Rabbit' Sex Toys Recalled in Safety Scare Popular vibrator recommended on Sex in the City.

UK Times - Buffet expects stock market to get worse.

Spin and Counter Spin about Farscape cancellation. The next time people can see Farscape is one of the least television viewership days of the year - Dec 24th. Why are they putting their most expensive show on at that time? Is this a Christmas present to Farscape viewers? Very strange.

Isadore went ashore early Thusday, south of New Orleans. One of the four tracking models had predicted it moving that fast straight up. I was not very accurate but still very fortunate for us all. Texas didn't really get that much out of it.

My depression is slowly going away, I'm getting back to normal sleeping schedule. I did have dim sum with my brother, Amy and Pat Sunday. The brocolli was odd but very good, it still had its leaves and I thought it was greens at first I also like the shrimp balls and the sesame coated ball of ??? OK, but I think it was a low ratio of things I really liked. I would prefer Thai. I managed to get Jim's signatures on paperwork, now to give to Charlene.

The Homeless Guy A blogging homeless person. I need to find out how he added comment boxes. Later today, I stuck comment boxes on my liberal blog.

Weather Underground: Tropical Storm: Tracking Map My first guess for landfall - Port Aurthur Friday early evening.

"Oh Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splain' To Do" Timeline for possible CIA and FBI prior knowledge of 9/11

This Election Won't Turn on Regime Change (washingtonpost.com)
Democratic pollster: if Democrats convince the electorate that they also take a tough stance on terrorism, election will be on domestic issues and they will take both houses of Congress. So minimize differences with the President's insane plans because we don't want the debate to be on that.

WIL WHEATON DOT NET: Where is my mind?:

Penguin Time

This is Wil Wheatons experience setting up Linux.

SaveFarscape News : 'Interstellar Transmissions' Interviews David Kemper
"If we come back in January with a couple eps that are sky-high in
ratings--and the critics love us, I've talked to a lot of critics and
they're shocked--the ratings go through the roof, something's gonna
happen. "

"Farscape is a love story. It's not even science fiction. The reason
people are passionate, it's not your father's science fiction."

http://farscape.wdsection.com/news/article.php?newsid=73

BusinessWorld Internet Edition International battle fails to save Farscape. Producers have said elsewhere that season 4, which will air starting in January, is great. I take that as probably much better than this past summer. Also if ther ratings are big enough they can still shoot the final wrap-up season for which they have the written scripts that close out the series. I am not optimistic there. I am conducting a no Friday night Sci Fi Network boycott until Farscape returns in January. This is probably a stupid idea but...

Newsweek: Futurology: The World in 2012 Another recent reminder that I started to get a Master's in Futures Studies years ago. This special report does have one section that indicates that would not have been a good field to get into. That's in addition to my preference for harder future science techniques as opposed to softer visioning.

New York Times: A Tribute Gone Awry, on the Wings of Pigeons
I guess no one remembered the WKRP Thanksgiving show. "As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly."

Most of my stuff has been about politics lately.

CNN.com - Web support for 'Farscape' out of this world - September 18, 2002

NY Times, Physicists Create Antimatter The antihydrogen jar at CERN.

I've been having trouble with my email. My replies to people disappear from my machine and sometimes the people get them, sometimes they don't.

AlterNet: A Profile in Dating Courage What an older woman wants.

Is ‘Star Trek’ in our future? Popular science from William Shatner and his ghost writer.

A science fiction fan reviews Margarat Atwood's review of Ursula Le Guin in the New York Review of Books. One comment: " [...] It's too bad that one term—"science fiction"—has served for so many variants, and too bad also that this term has acquired a dubious if not downright sluttish reputation.

Well, you could quit accusing the genre of sleeping around with other genres, as if that were a bad thing, Ms. Atwood.

Health and Human Services Replacing Science Advisors with Pro-Business newcomers(washingtonpost.com)

During Bob Dole's run for the president, a reporter asked him: Boxer's or briefs?

Dole's answer?

Depends...

Wired - Problems with online maps. Have I mentioned getting lost 2 weeks ago?

The Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke vs. Soft Drink etc. This is a cool research project on regional dialects. When you were growing up how would you refer to carbonated beverages?


Some Lester Bangs: The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
A limited group of people really do decide what is cool to get out to the rest of the schlubs in middle America.

Dori Bangs, listed in his 10 favorite stories,

DORI BANGS by Bruce Sterling

* Nebula Short Story Nominee (1989), Hugo Short Story Nominee (1990)
An alternate history where cartoonist Dori Seda and rock critic Lester Bangs, two underground figures who died young and alone, find each other and marry.

a critical review here

A great history - A Brief History of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

alicubi journal :: ungracious living :: stranded on the can :: 08.27.02

UK Independent - Britain will have more floods. London is threatened. Cars may have to be restricted. This is an official British government global warning report. Our oil/big "badness" administration meanwhile denies global warning exists. Maybe here in the US we should create a new phrase "I know the difference between rain and someone p*ssing on my boots and telling me it's not raining."

Politics - Scott Ritter, Karl Rove, Emily's List, and Representative Dennis Kucinich among my other rants.

Anti-spam lists bar Yahoo stores - Tech News - CNET.com

The Very First Smiley :-)

I placed counters on my blogs. Not sure how this will change anything I do.

Yahoo article on Farscape being cancelled says that Stargate SG-1 was getting much bigger ratings. I am surprised at that. I see at Save Farscape that the press release was a lie(?) and ratings were going up. I would think they should be about the same as SG-1. SCI FI may be right in that Farscape had peaked and it needed to expand its audience.
Showtime is a little interested in picking up Farscape. Use the link, Luke to say it is a good idea.

Here is the petition link.
I just hopped over to SCIFI Chat and several veterans there have never seen a TV fan protest building as fast as this.
Rally tomorrow about Farscape cancellation is in the same area as Today show and other network news offices. Might make the news shows but this was last minute. This protest seems to be building very fast.

Busy weekend for me. I was not able to go the the Saturday San Jacinto gaming group at the alternative rain site because of the once a month Saturday meeting with my other main group. I would have liked to have seen Horizon Games.

Last Saturday the 7 PM monthly Bennigans meeting for the Clear Lake Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club lasted until almost midnight. Great, although I really noticed my hearing loss. I can't wait for the monthly Wednesday meeting where we exchange books. I'll bring the recent Hugo winner.

Sunday was for Peter and Carol. I went down to Clear Lake with Pat for a Mexican lunch out. We met a friend of their's from the Larry Niven mailing list. Pat and Carol went to the UU Church to do crafts for a few hours while Peter and the kids and I went to his house. I learned about SimSafari which I really liked. It is a greatly expanded version of an idea I had for an ecological world simulation 25 years ago. Carol and her son later went with Pat and me to a cheap movie theater for Star Wars Episode 2. The movie was better than the last Star Wars, Episode 1, but had many flaws. A problem given that I think Episode 3 will have to be more complicated, with more conflict and high drama, and Lucas could not handle it in number 2.

Peter is almost ready with his short book discussing the flaws in the current Libertarian Party - more on politics page.

Commentary Tracks of the Damned - bad movies on DVD. It has a brief review of Million Dollar Hotel which was at first going to be a science fiction film.

I have read Strata, American Gods, Sourcery recently.

I'm disappointed that Farscape is being canceled by the Sci Fi Channel. There is a problem with another network picking it up as the Sci Fi Channel has all of the past episode rights. Farscape is definitely a series where you need much of the back story to understand new episodes. Email, fax, or phone to help persuade them to change their minds. This habit of SCI FI of canceling their original series does not lead to network loyalty and expansion.

I think I will notify more people I have the blogs now. I seem to have the major problems taken care of and am ready to be more visible. All the formatting looks acceptable for the three if not ideal.

Whoo Hooo! I was able to get my archives back. I might stick with Blogger instead of going to Radioland. The posts I really wanted in my archive really belong in my other two linked blogs - politics and games. Maybe this weekend I'll have a chance to look into moving past posts.

Houston Press | Global Warming is Good For You! Brilliant article by Dylan Otto Krider who is also a local Houston SF writer. I had to go searching for the article because I wanted something to send John Ringo, military SF writer, as he has fallen for the industrial line. I should point out that the title is satirical.

The Motto I was trying to attach to what I call my top banner/blog description has suddenly appeared. Now if only my archives would come back.

Most of my archives disappeared while I was trying to modify my top banner description. I had read that was a past problem with blogger but thought it had been corrected. I may have to try RadioLand or LiveJournal.

Meanwhile here is an article about the future power needs of space craft. Science@NASA

I also found some answers for Peter's question about why the US can't just invade Iraq for not honoring the peace treaty. The US can't because binding documents the US signed puts enforcement into the hands of the UN. Of course, we can if we want to face the repercussions of being a rogue lawless state. Link is in my Liberal notebook.

7 Reasons not to Invade Iraq.

Posted Lightning Strike: A Risk 2210 Variant rules.

I had misspelled it as Lightening which might be appropriate. I had a lot of popular media and my cable experience stuff but it is too late to post now.