The European Space Agency is apparently looking to volunteer people for a space mission to Mars. (via inferior 4+1)
WFMU has a lengthy post (with lots of nice pictures) about David T. Sims, who constructs elaborate costumes.
Celestial Intervention Agency Podcast has an episode discussing their favorite SF television shows, and why some of the better ones inevitably get canceled too early.
J.G. Ballard Quote:
I do think that novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver...
Borges Quote:
We drew our heavy revolvers (suddenly in the dream there were revolvers) and exultantly killed the gods.
Chan Wook Park's new film I'm A Cyborg But That's OK debuts in New York tomorrow. 
Joss Whedon Quote:
Remember that they tried to kill us. They did kill us. And here we are. We have done the Impossible, and that makes us mighty.
The Flash died, and the old one came back.
Oh yeah. And this.
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A few quick note on last Saturday's episode of Doctor Who, Human Nature, penned by Wisdom writer Paul Cornell (thanks to the ever-wise Rich Johnston for once again, pointing me in the right direction by pointing Cornell out):
This is perhaps, the first episode in the new season that has ended on a cliff-hanger where I absolutely can not wait any longer to see resolved in the next episode. Really. I wake up every day, sweating. Of course, this can probably be attributed to the rapidly climing temperatures, and my lack of proper air conditioning, but I'm pretty sure it's because of Doctor Who.
Jessica Fucking Stevenson/Hynes!!!
My opinion of Freeman Agyeman keeps getting better and better with each episode. She was absurdly likable in this episode as well.
Time travel stories are always most interesting, to me, when smart people are forced to break the rules. It's essentially drama being handed to writers on a silver platter, because speculative fiction has trained us to believe that if one rule is broken, the entire foundation of space/time is in jeopardy. Those are not stakes that I would ever want to play.
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