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I watched this with Heather recently. She thoiught it was "silly" and didn't get why it was one of the best movies ever. A very depressing moment...

[James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon)]

Apparently I'm secretly a woman and used to work in military intelligence...

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It was kind of amusing to see some people annoucing taht the newsgroup is dead recenty.

(If only because, if we're really honest, it's been dead for about five years now)

Link: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comics.2000ad/browse_thread/thread/2a3b1b49ffe2e7d8/36a018f0088f1cfd#36a018f0088f1cfd" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comics.2000ad/b

Keep an eye out for the  number 23 today.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(numerology)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(numerology)

Build towers to defeat the hordes... that's my day gone.

Link: http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/" target="_blank">http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6208549.stm">RIP Peace between Somalia and Ethiopia. Two countries that really didn;t need to slide further into the shit.

Link: http://www.rifters.com/real/progress.htm" target="_blank">Homo sapiens whedonum

The Gorean philosophy, as introduced to us by John Norman (John Frederick Lange, Jr., Ph.D.,) continues to expand throughout the world.

Link: http://www.goreanwhispers.com/home.html" target="_blank">http://www.goreanwhispers.com/home.html

A chinese colouring/drawing book for teaching kids about military weaponry! Awesome

Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/sets/72157594376071750/" target="_blank">This ones super lucky

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Someones started listing all the 2000ad blogs they can find over on Metafilter, which is kind of cool. I've got a metafilter account so if anyone wants to add any more post them here and I'll repost them there.

Link: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56538" target="_blank">The 2000AD Generation

...and written by Rob Williams.

Link: http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/rage/index1.htm" target="_blank">and aparently some terrorists or something

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...and here's the first episode to start you off.

Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/16/transmetropolitan_1_.html" target="_blank">http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/16/transmetropol

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Six word stories by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Joss Whedon and others...

Link: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html" target="_blank">Very Short Stories

Link: http://justcurio.us/index.php" target="_blank">...get stupid answers.

Link: http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2006/09/i_guess_its_nice_to.php" target="_blank">Yikes!

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Star Trek gets the Star Wars treatment...

Link: http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71798-0.html" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71798-0.ht

Link: http://bubblegumfink.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-post_115419897303214348.html" target="_blank">http://bubblegumfink.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-pos

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This is a deeply nerdy site, but kind of fun. A highpoint for me is finally figgering out what shape V'Ger is actually supposed to be.

Link: http://www.merzo.net/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.merzo.net/index.html

The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says.

The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed" and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us".

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5068606.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5068606.stm