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It's apparently the signature song of the choir. I've found a version of them singing it on YouTube for every year since 2006.

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This is what it sounds like when a college a cappella choir does an arrangement of "Hide and Seek." Much more organic and chill inducing than the electronica version.

Saw her live in Toronto. She does all this in real time, just the singer, a bank of keyboards and Macbook. It seemed extraordinary in 2006.

What's going to happen when this science series about the wonders of the universe and the mysteries of evolution on FOX gets decried by Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the knuckledragging Luddites on FOX? My head's going to be all explodey!

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She quit acting and then did what for a living? Worked at Starbucks? Puh-lease. She's made boat for the rest if her life and can do whatever she wants. She probably makes money while she's sleeping. Can't take a little negative publicity so you're going to go into seclusion? Rich people's problems …

You should see him when the parking lot attendants at Starbase Seven take it out for a spin when he's trying to enjoy a day on the town on Risa.

Cameron would like to have some words with you and those words are "Mau mau (shika shhh). Oh yeah!"

It would be Alanis ironic.

Real ironic would be if some poor innocent man who looks and dresses like Zimmerman were followed down the sidewalk and gunned down solely because of his appearance.

Which is how I felt when JJ Abrams grabbed a shovel, drove his Range Rover to the nearest cemetery, and began looking for Gene Roddenberry's corpse so he could make sweet, sweet love to its ass. No wonder the Great Bird of the Galaxy wanted his remains blasted into space.

There is a mirror-image case study on how Ender's Game will perform in the face of political/religious objections: The Golden Compass, the book which the Catholic League described as "atheism for kids."

I'm not going to see the movie. Ender's Game was among a dozen or so books I read in high school which cemented my lifelong love of fantasy and science fiction. I believe so strongly in marriage equality that I participate in boycotts when called upon to do so. That said, I would see the movie if there were a

How about a Star Trek reboot where a crew from Section 31 in the thirtieth century go back in time to prevent Eric Bana from blowing up the USS Kelvin and destroying Vulcan with a drop of handwavium.

Take your prepaid card to the cash register at Walmart, buy a Slim Jim, and ask for $50 cash back. Problem solved.

So glad Sandra Bullock is past her serious actress phase and back into Miss Congeniality/Demolition Man territory.

I was nine and this book, and the other two in the Tripods trilogy, freaked me the hell out. Fallen Skies has nothing on what this could be as a major American series. (It's been repeatedly dramatized in Britain.)

One of my favorite quotes: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”John Steinbeck

Yes, but Australia has a coastline that boat people can wash up upon and pollution in the air knows no borders. Elysium is the perfect metaphor for an extreme class divide.

SPOILER ALERT: Terrifying interstellar threat wirelessly rendered inert in one fell swoop by washed up '80s movie star who sneaks aboard the mothership.

This is a cartoon Jay Leno would draw.

What else did BSG show "only the audience" in its shaky Handicam faux-documentary style? Oh, for all of its emphasis on gritty realism, that show tweaked me in so many way. There was a water shortage, but when was the fleet ever going to run out of booze and tobacco? Who kept all the clothing in tip-top shape? (The