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Where To Download Movie Trailers
After spending some time looking for a useful video clip with a nerd depicted in it, which was long enough to have students pick out ten physical, verbal, gestural, or other traits that marked a character as a nerd, and realizing this was frankly impossible within the DVDs I have in my own collection, I realized that the perfect medium would be a movie trailer for a film about a nerd. After searching in vain for a long time for a place where I could actually download the trailer files themselves (it’s better not to be dependent on streaming media …
Adam’s Worried. As Am I.
Adam at A Violently Executed Blog admits he’s worried and that all that bluster about Iran might not just be bluster. It scares me, too. I mean, if they invade Iran, they’ll need troops. Can’t take them from Iraq. Where will they get them? No, no, please don’t say Korea. Because on the other side of the DMZ, Evil Mr. Kim is just waiting to swoop down and slaughter all of what he’d certainly see as pampered, soft, weak couch potatoes here in the South.
Wondering what it’s like to be a minority
If you are, go read this post over at I Have Seoul. [The blogger is, I think, from Saskatchewan just like I am, by the way!] It’s not always like this for me in Korea, but it’s like this just enough to develop a bad attitude, if you don’t watch yourself. I notice it at least once every time I go sit down on the subway. I’m starting not to care anymore, but, you know, you still notice, and still sort-of care. And don’t forget, white people have it relatively good as far as minorities in Korea. But I still …
Practical Demonkeeping: Forever Young
Something unknown has caused one girl to stop aging at 6 months old. Her mom says they’re just waiting “to see what tomorrow brings”… I predict it will bring a lot of people wanting whatever condition she has bottled and sold– but adjusted to let them stop aging at their present age, or around age 22. Via Practical Demonkeeping: Forever Young
Korean Robot Nannies
Here’s more on that.
Writing Science Fiction During the Third World War
The sorta-dead The Infinite Matrix has Eleanor Arnason’s great speech/essay on the subject. Worth a read, and look around there while you’re there.
James Morrow | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly
James Morrow on Intelligent Design: Intelligent design theory is technically a different beast from creationism, because its advocates do allow that natural selective pressures may have shaped the destiny of the primordial—supposedly exogenous—organic molecules. The apostles of ID do not automatically dismiss the possibility of the modern horse emerging from the eohippus through evolution. They would even argue that the intelligent designer is not ipso facto the creator-god of Christian revelation, though it’s obvious they’re sponsoring him for the job. For my money, the whole enterprise should not be called intelligent design theory but rather IDIOT—Intelligent Design Implicit Onto-Theology. ID …
Age of Embodiment
Age of Embodiment isa blog on technology and culture run by the Canadian SF author Karl Schroeder. There are so many good posts I’m just linking directly.
Angry Asian-Americans Against Adidas
Well, 40 of them. More on the Ray Fong adicolor shoe hullaballoo. Perhaps Adidas screwed up. But the artist whose tag they used is Asian himself! (Well, half-Asian, as they point out, but that’s more than enough for him to identify. And if they hadn’t noticed, the Angry Asian Man they cited, he’s annoyed about EVERYTHING.)