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But here’s a neat little quiz, How Jedi are you?

As for me?

:: how jedi are you? ::

Don’t make me choke you!

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In the world according BlogShares.

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Here’s a link to the website for SciFi Channel’s Stargate:Spinoff, Stargate Atlantis, which premieres July 16.

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Looks like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is being pushed back to a September release date.

Apparently, Spider-Man 2′s release was moved up and SCatWoT would have had only 4 days before SM2 stared. Oh well, at least no they’ll have more time to work on the effects and won’t be so rushed. I’m still gearing up for this movie. Now only of they could have worked in a 1930′s style Dyson Sphere….

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For our non-Texas friends, and even for those who live here but don’t know this (you know who you are), today is the day the Texas Revolution ended and Texas was granted independence from Mexico.

April 21st was the Battle of San Jacinto whereby the Texians routed the Mexican, who apparently thought it was ok to sleep during the battle. Today, in 1836, General Santa Anna was captured and granted Texas its independence. If you haven’t been to the park, its just east of Houston, why not? The monument is cool and you can tour the Battleship Texas! What’s not to like?

I know, I know, not SF. But at least all that crap I learned from the @#%^&#$ 8lb. Texas History book in school came in useful!

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It must mean that Google has a new, spiffy logo up. And sure enough they do. Make sure to check out the Google holiday logos. Since they have one for Gaston Julia’s (‘discoverd’ fractals, before fractals where cool), they should have one for Dec. 15th, 2004. Which, as we all know, is the birthday of Freeman Dyson, patron saint of all things mind-bogglingly large and spherical. I propose the Os in Google be replaced with Dyson Spheres.

Oh yeah!

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Not sure if this will Fix Pete’s job woes, but we have a Man in Black. So maybe he needs a partner and then they could both be on the lookout for evil aliens in search of a Dyson sphere… (not a good reference but a reference nonetheless.)

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There’s a recent post over at The Website at the End of the Universe talking about William Shatner’s bad day. Check out the funny links.

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Also from RevolutionSF: The Top 75 Heroines of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror (Part I)

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For you Star Wars fanboys, of which I am not one, RevolutionSF reviews the Star Wars Party Book. It includes SW-themed foods, games and decorations.

I found the following statements funny: “The book is aimed at kids, and repeatedly says ‘ask an adult’ for help. But that could also apply to college students.”

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A pointless, but potentially interesting exercise found at the Spacecraft Blog:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Here’s one:

LINE: “Zak and Ishi were back in Zak’s tiny bunkroom, wedged in like sardines.”

SOURCE: Jupiter Project by Gregory Benford

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I ran across The Mumpsimus on SciFi.COM’s listing of new sites and its really good. It should be, seeing as how Mr. Cheney (not that Cheney) is a writer and teacher. And, unlike us, he actually sticks to the SF arena, mostly. Well, at least more than we do…

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Will be back for more in The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. In fact, 4 more books. I’m not sure where I stand on this. I really enjoy Donaldson’s work, The Gap series is great, and I really like the Covenant books, even though they are fantasy. But after the ending of White Gold Wielder, I figured that was it. I won’t spoil the ending for those who haven’t read it yet, but it seemed rather final. Donaldson says that the ideas for both the Second Chronicles and Last Chronicles came to him at the same time, but he’s waited on writing the last Chronicles because they are difficult to write. I’m interested to see how the story moves forward for where he left off. I’ll probably pick these up in hardback starting this fall!

And with the addition of 4 more novels, each of which will probably run over 600+ pages (like the others), the overall size of the Covenant series will put many average-sized Dyson Spheres to shame…

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Longtime award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is stepping down as editor at Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine to ‘to pursue other projects’.

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In recombinant lexography! Yay! Thanks to Google and the google search.

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This article on the worst songs ever made me wonder what were some of the worst sf/f books people ever read. The only requirement is that it you had to actually finish the book. Otherwise, slam away.

For me, I would say that Battlefield Earth is the worst book I’ve ever finished. I though the first half was good. But then, at the halfway point, the main bad guy (Terl) gets killed off. The last half of the book details the efforts of Earth’s survivors to wrestle control of the planet from…shark bankers. Lame. Every page was a tough decision to persevere or give up. Unfortunately, I continued. After the read, I had no inkling to see the Travolta movie (although I did catch part of that train wreck on SciFi).

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In the topic of “Not that I troll for Star Wars information” (but I would if I had more time), I saw this post about a preview of the new Darth Vader costume on the Trilogy DVD .

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According to the Ecological Footprint Quiz, “If everyone lived like you, we would need 3.4 planets.” Bummer.

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Not that I’ve ever been to Sunday school, but I’ve heard that it’s not much fun. But now you can learn all the mythological Bible stories here as portrayed by kung-fu-grip-laden figurines. You might even say that it’s more fun than a bag of Dyson’s spheres; especially for a faithless heathen such as myself.

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