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So who’s on the list?

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Jun 092016

New ISIS ‘Kill’ List Claims To Target Thousands Of Americans

In their latest effort to convince people that they are representatives of a peaceful and rational ideological system, an Islamic State “hacking group” issued a list of 8,318 people it wants to kill, 7,848 of whom are Americans. Apparently a whole lot of these people are just regular schmoes. But the list isn’t given, so you can’t look up your own name and decide whether to:

Wet yourself in fear that you’re on it
Feel offended that you’re not.

So I’ve lost an antimatter factory…

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Jun 082016

Years ago – and by years I mean a couple decades – I saw an article or paper that described antimatter production facilities that were vast in scale. Several different concepts were shown, collider rings hundreds of thousands or millions of kilometers in diameter. And for the life of me i can’t remember where I saw this. Does it ring any bells? The diagrams were pretty basic.

The Hidden Meaning in Interstellar

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Jun 082016

Maybe a year and a half late, but whatever…

Want: Star Trek TOS on Blu-Ray

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Jun 082016

The price has not yet been announced, but I gotta imagine it’ll be a little bit spendy.

The Original Star Trek Is Getting an Incredible Blu-Ray Set for the 50th Anniversary

It’ll have *thirty* Blu-Ray disks with:

Star Trek: The Original Series Blu-ray
Star Trek: The Animated Series Blu-ray
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blu-ray
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Director’s Cut Blu-ray
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Blu-ray
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Blu-ray
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Blu-ray
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Blu-ray
Star Trek: The Journey to the Silver Screen—New 50th Anniversary Multi-Part Documentary
Collectible 50th Anniversary Starfleet Insignia Pin
Collectible Mini-Posters for Movies 1-6
Over 20 hours of bonus content

Great googaly moogaly. Dunno if the TOS episodes are the original as-aired episodes or the remastered ones with new CGI effects. Looks like the Motion Picture is the “standard” version, not the one with improved effects.

Insert Witty Caption HERE

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Jun 082016

Ummm… something or other about this image seems… I dunno, “disturbing.”

Hillary’s nomination a win 96 years in the making

“Clinton/Clark 2016: Making the world safe for the Shadows.”

The full photo reminds me of something, but for the life of me I can’t recall what.

Anyway, I’ve found my candidate of choice for this election cycle:

Here… we… go.

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Jun 062016

Sorry Liberals, A Violent Response To Trump Is As Logical As Any

Where the writer argues that it’s good and proper for liberals to use violence on random other people in order to express their hatred of Trump.

Yeah. This will end well.

Growth industry

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Jun 052016

Who said Socialism never aided business growth? If you are a grenade manufacturer or dealer, Venezuela is the place to be!

Deaths From Hand Grenades Rise in Venezuela

47 people killed with grenades in 2015. Still small compared to the overall of 27,875 homicides (90 per 100,000). But hey, the economic conditions are so spectacularly awesome that the military is selling things like AT-4 anti-tank missiles to street criminals.

Feel the Bern!

Storytime: “Going to Gimli” part 3

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Jun 052016

Here is Part Three of the story of Sarah, Zane, Loff and George transporting a shipload of rich folk to Gimli, a place where regular folk just don’t get to go. If you want to catch up in advance, Part One is available HERE, Part Two is available HERE, and the previous story, “Mass Disappearance,” is available HERE. A couple story fragments starring this crew are available HERE and HERE.

If you like it, feel free to tell your friends, family, co-workers, random strangers, whoever. Like it, hate it or meh it, I’m interested in your thoughts via comments. In particular: do you read it in EPUB pr PDF??

EPUB version

PDF version

Well, it’s all downhill from here…

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Jun 042016

The political left is starting to show its true colors. I imagine the next few months will get pretty nasty now that leftists and their allies have realized that they can physically assault Donald Trump supporters in front of the police and not be stopped or arrested.

Given that a Chavez-like Socialist stood a realistic chance of getting the Democratic nomination, it shouldn’t be surprising that the sort of violence flaring up in Venezuela will become popular on American streets.

The funny thing is, this sort of thing will probably only make Trump more popular, since the criminals are showing themselves to be what they are, and making Trumps point for him.

This is hardly unique. Racist groups/Sanders supporters (but then, I repeat myself) are using disruption and assault and threats to prevent people from being heard

Spoon bending is still a thing

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Jun 042016

Who knew?

Spoon-bending workshop, widely ridiculed online, pulled by university

Behold:

After a healthy dose of online ridicule, the University of Alberta has cancelled a workshop at which doctors were supposed to learn to bend spoons.

With their minds.

Oy.

It’s good that the university eventually cancelled this rubbish, but it’s sad that the “class” got beyond the initial “laughing-at-and-roundfiling” stage.

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