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Monthly Archives: June 2005

June 29, 2005 | Science & Technology

Cruise Missile

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Scientology dupe, quack remedy shill and award-winning dwarf Tom Cruise has been in the news lately, not only for his…

June 27, 2005 | Politics

Cardinal Zinn

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The Boston Review brings us an insightful essay by Howard Zinn, entitled The Power and the Glory: Myths of American…

June 23, 2005 | Politics

Scott Ritter On The War On Iran

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Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq and credible expert on the real situation in the Middle East, writes…

June 23, 2005 | Art, Design & Photography

Worth1000 On Escher

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Worth1000 do Escher, a lot of them arguably better than Escher did Escher. It’s interesting to note that the better…

June 20, 2005 | Cinema, General Geek Culture

Neal Stephenson On Star Wars

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Neal Stephenson writes about geek love for Star Wars in the New York Times: I lap this stuff up along…

June 20, 2005 | 100 Word Reviews, Cinema

Trapped in Space (100 Word Review)

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Arthur C. Clarke novel turned to crap in a badly acted, over-dramatic cliché of astronauts trapped in space and rapidly…

June 17, 2005 | General Geek Culture, Language, Literature & Linguistics

Orson Scott Card A Facist And A Fraud?

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Kuro5hin denizen localroger reveals that Orson Scott Card has always been an asshat. In addition, he might not have been…

June 10, 2005 | Fun & Humour

Premarital Sex, Your Right To Rut

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You could be excused for having certain expectations of a site called www.premaritalsex.info. Birth control, venereal disease, the things teens…

June 10, 2005 | Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

Creationism: God’s gift to the ignorant

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Richard Dawkins writes on the religious right, Intelligent Design and the deceit of the neo-creationists. Read it in the Times…

June 9, 2005 | Science & Technology

A Skeptic’s View of Men Who Stare At Goats

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Skeptic supremo Michael Shermer reviews Jon Ronson’s book The Men Who Stare at Goats for the Bulletin of the Atomic…

June 8, 2005 | Language, Literature & Linguistics

Houellebecq On Lovecraft

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Michel Houellebecq’s new book on HP Lovecraft once again opens up the debate on whether Lovecraft was a brilliant author,...

June 8, 2005 | 100 Word Reviews, Cinema

American Graffiti (100 Word Review)

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High school graduates, coming of age, start of the rest of their lives, blah blah blah. Like American Pie, but…

June 8, 2005 | Fun & Humour

Batman Rumours Prove True

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Well, well, well, we can finally reveal where Bruce Wayne spends his vacation time: Zanzibar, apparently. As to what he…

June 5, 2005 | 100 Word Reviews, Cinema

Natural City (100 Word Review)

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Part Blade Runner, part Matrix, featuring pole dancing cyborgs and hot human on cyborg action. Min Byung-chun’s high budget Korean…

June 3, 2005 | Fun & Humour

The Cynical Traveller

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The Cynical Traveller tells it like it is, at least like it is for those of us underawed by the…