I agree, it's one interesting book. It's one of the overlooked works of Frank Hebert.

The only problem with this is that Apple never wanted to utilize DRM but was forced to by the music industry. Steve Jobs in fact published a pivotal open letter in early 2007 outlining the problem with DRM and why Apple didn't want it in the first place. This was the beginning of the end for DRM in music. I…

We in Louisiana have reportedly had an albino baby dolphin in the Sabine Pass area in the SW part of the state about two years ago. There were a number of pictures from different sources of the mother and pink calf with local recognizable backgrounds. So maybe not all pink albino dolphin stories are hoaxes?

You know, this explanation actually makes a lot of sense. Especially in light of the events of the T:SCC. The machines were always trying to influence the past to insure their future. From making sure they had the right alloys in place to build endoskeletons, to making sure key collaborators ended up in places they…

You don't mean Roland Atkinson (who played Blackadder)? He's still around:

And If I remember correctly the novel cited by lightninglouie, Downbelow Station, won the Hugo Award in 1982. Slightly before either DS9 or B5 were written. BTW, he picked the edition with my favorite cover, which oddly enough more or less correctly depicts the station and carriers.

Hey Erik, I ran into your answer today on TDW Geek:

Teledildonics hasn't fully lived up to the hype as of yet, but there are some interesting spin-offs. For example, there is the OhMiBod music-powered vibrator. Their motto is "feel the music."

I'm in for the lawn party. We did try 2nd Edition to some extent, and THAC0 has a lot to recommend it. However, if it wasn't published by TSR, you can forget it. I'll bring the Fiend Folio and some garlic bread.

Very good point, there was very likely no access to ice in the region at all.

True, too true . . .

That's a very good taxonomic point. For them to successfully interbreed, and regularly produce reproductively viable young, they must have been subspecies of Homo sapiens, not seperate species. Otherwise, the offspring would be sterile or at least limitedly reproductively successful hybrids, such as mules. This is in…

The previous Doctor Who Movie from 1996 definitely wasn't very good. It was set in SanFransico, The Doctor became half-human, there was a love story, and The Master became a terrible CGI snake that possessed people.

I just wanted to point out that Triceratops and Zuniceratops are both genus names, and in taxonomy, these should always be capitalized, and to be most correct should be given in italics, or underlined. Species names should be lower case, but also in italics or underlined: Homo sapiens. In the popular press, the…

Yeah, the church name was pretty generic, they should have just called it the First Baptist church as there seems o be one of those in every town anyway . . .

Well, the crucifix looked more Catholic than Southern Baptist (SB). However, crucifixes do occur in SB churches, especially rural backwoods ones. I think the producers chose that particular "suffering Christ" type because it plays on the "Zombie Jesus" idea - they worship a person who reportedly rose from the dead…

From what I've heard they will be completely remastering them from the original film or video, and will be re-touching all of the special effects. It's supposed to be a really state of the art job. They will be releasing a four episode special edition within a few months to show off the work being done.

Well, there's a good idea. Spinoff anyone?

That could be a right. A reference maybe to Captain Jack Harkness? He no doubt would have very interesting stag parties.

I've been wondering that myself, but I just figured out why it seems familiar. This guy knows so much about aliens, because he himself IS ONE! He gives it away because of his Centauri hair! See example at left.