Sounds like nothing more than Marxist historical revisionism to me. I think Correia's argument is that absolving 'whitey' of his obvious sins through environmental determinism is racist (by which he really means ethnocentric) and unsupportable. He's wrong on both counts, even if Diamond's methodology is sometimes…

Which is the "Possibly...best TV show of the past few years comes to our screens"

Cute, but nothing will top Finnish rockers The Leningrad Cowboys featuring the Red Army Choir performing "Happy Together" (all the way back in 1994.)

I think, to a certain degree depends on whether or not you're talking about SF literature or mainstream TV and film. I'm increasingly convinced that mainstream so-called science-fiction is actually hostile toward science, which is portrayed as destructive, and scientists, who are portrayed as nerds at best, or more…

It's a battle we lost a long time ago, my friend. I was always fond of the term 'speculative fiction' myself but SF was fine. Sci-fi will always suggest 1950's B-films and lame direct-to-video apocalyptic trash, but these days most people see no difference between 2001 and Sharknado. SF is now mostly used by book…

More important, why aren't you watching Doctor Who? ;)

Definitely Timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly time stuff. Or in layman's terms, two different versions of the Doctor (he dies and regenerates) are in the same time period. Which he says they should never do. But they've done it several times before. John Hurt could be a past Doctor we've never seen, a future Doctor OR (this…

I still watch them. Brilliant animation and wonderful characterization.

Great makeup, but I don't get why they're dressed like Gandalf and Frodo. Maybe I'm too old. Weeping Angel, on the other hand, amazing.

And the "I just want a mate" line has got to be one of THE funniest bits ever.

You didn't have to suffer through it the first time. 1996. Man, that was a crappy year for music. Well, at least we had Supergrass and Blur.

Look nice but I still prefer my Onyx Boox M92. More expensive, sure, but Boox readers can open any format, there are no ads and it's stupid-easy to transfer files between a computer and the reader or download. Only downside is the 9.7" reader doesn't have the back-light, but the new 6" model does. (i62, iirc)

It's obviously time for Syfy to change its name to Fntsy.

That's hilarious. Well, let's see how long we can keep this peach theme going. My favourite is "Peaches" by the Stranglers.

Ah, music of my youth. Anyway, yeah, a pretty good song and band. They opened for They Might be Giants on their first Canadian tour( iirc.) We had never heard of them but they rocked the house. Then TMBG hit the stage and almost destroyed the place. The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver was famous for an old, bouncy…

I loved the Richard Matheson/Omega Man reference. Kudos to Guillermo del Toro who really knows his stuff.

One of my favourite films ever. Great science-fiction, humanistic and even sorta spiritual. I think I'll watch it this weekend!

Captain Janeway: "Time travel. Since my first day on the job as a Starfleet captain I swore I'd never let myself get caught in one of these godforsaken paradoxes - the future is the past, the past is the future, it all gives me a headache."

Perhaps not most betrayed, but I kinda expected a reaction from Uhura when they saw the destruction of the fleet. But nothing, because that moment of characterization for Uhura, would have slowed down the action by .5 seconds.

He died so he wasn't the Chosen One, but he died so he WAS the Chosen One. This is exactly why Christianity confuses me.