[scifinoir2] Re: The Left Hand of Darkness

2010-07-22 Thread Kelwyn
I LOVE The Left Hand of Darkness. It is one of the Sci-Fi tent poles of my sane-and-sober youth. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, angelababycat asrobin...@... wrote: Just finished reading Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness -- the first sci-fi novel I've made time to sit down and

[scifinoir2] Gina Torres to voice Wonder Woman

2010-07-22 Thread Kelwyn
http://www.popcultureshock.com/hamill-conroy-baldwin-gina-torres-voice-dc-universe-online/55370/ Gina Torres (Wonder Woman) – Currently starring in the new ABC Family series Huge, Torres' most notable television credits are her performances as assassin Anna Espinosa on Alias and Zoe Washburn,

[scifinoir2] Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

2010-07-22 Thread Kelwyn
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/21/final-scott-pilgrim.html After a long, long, long wait, Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, the concluding volume in Bryan Lee O'Malley's hilarious, ultra-geeky, manga-inflected, game-obsessed comic about a slacker who can only have his

Re: [scifinoir2] Gina Torres to voice Wonder Woman

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
Didn't someone here just do a post on Nubia, the Black Wonder Woman? (Apologies to whoever did so -- memory issues, you know.) Am I wrong for calling this perfect casting? On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Pug sings Batman TV theme song

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
LMNAATWO!!! On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/21/pug-dog-sings-batman.html -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who

Re: [scifinoir2] Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
Good news, rave! On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/21/final-scott-pilgrim.html After a long, long, long wait, Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, the concluding volume in Bryan Lee O'Malley's hilarious,

Re: [scifinoir2] QinetiQ’s Zephyr solar powered un manned aircraft demonstrates perpetual flight

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
Afraid I have to shoot you down on that, Mr Worf. Here in Atlanta, MARTA's bugged. Every rail car has at least two cameras in it. Supposedly hidden but, if you ride the system as often as I do, it's easy to pick up. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: We

Re: [scifinoir2] Fight like girls? Yes, they do!

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
rave, Martin like women what kick much a$$... [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://baemith.notlong.com Angelina Jolie has proven her skills as a dramatic actress in such movies as A Mighty Heart and Changeling, but she

[scifinoir2] OT: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
Wherein Brother Whitlock Speaks Truth to Power... http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/jason-whitlock-expose-ncaa-not-reggie-bush-072210?GT1=39002 The NCAA rule book is not the United States Constitution. If anything, the rule book supporting the bogus concept of “amateur athletics”

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes

2010-07-22 Thread Tracy Curtis
I am really curious about any experiences you would like to share with the NCAA. I was an undergrad in a place where athletics didn't bring revenue to the school; but I've been in places since then were sports matter a lot. But I know that student-athletes have vastly different experiences

Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Extremely Weird Religions

2010-07-22 Thread Adrianne Brennan
I'm still WTFing that they think CAW is weirder than Scientology. I bet this article was written by a monotheist. -- not a monotheist. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon

[scifinoir2] The Future of Robot Scientists

2010-07-22 Thread Mr. Worf
The Future of Robot Scientists - By Brandon Keimhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/author/brandon9keim/ [image: Email Author] bran...@earthlab.net - July 22, 2010 | - 2:10 pm | - Categories: Tech http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/tech/ - Future science historians

Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Extremely Weird Religions

2010-07-22 Thread Keith Johnson
I agree. CAW isn't really weird at all. You have animists in Africa, people who respect spirits of the land, air ,and sea in the UK, Natives here in the Americas who honor the ancestors. And as a black man, I add to your WTF with the fact that they think CAW is weirder than the racist

Re: [scifinoir2] The Future of Robot Scientists

2010-07-22 Thread Keith Johnson
I haven't read the article yet, but the picture made me smile. Ah, pity the poor young folk who didn't grow up on robots like this in the movies! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:32:33 PM

Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Extremely Weird Religions

2010-07-22 Thread Daryle Lockhart
Yeah this is a pretty bad list. Any aren't these religions wacky? list that starts with Scientology is, to me, a hater's list. The reasons they give for saying CAW is weird are some of the EXACT same arguments I've heard raised against Christianity. Let a non believer read the Bible and

Re: [scifinoir2] 10 Extremely Weird Religions

2010-07-22 Thread Adrianne Brennan
YES!!! Thank you. I can see why some of these made the list, but others sorta made me blink. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
Tracy, I don't really have a massive experience to correspond with this. The closest I've come to the sports-money experience was during my years at Virginia State, a measly D-IIA school. During football season my last year there, I was casually seeing a young lady who worked in the stadium office

Re: [scifinoir2] The Future of Robot Scientists

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
There's a link to Robot Scientist Makes Discovery All by Itself. This group has made me revamp my list of Truly Menacing Creatures, with 'bots overtaking monkeys for second place... [?][?][?] Seriously... if we don't pay heed to these little things, then we'll be wondering what happened the day

Re: [scifinoir2] The Future of Robot Scientists

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Baxter
White House lawn, please... hope that no Teabagger catches that gaffe. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: There's a link to Robot Scientist Makes Discovery All by Itself. This group has made me revamp my list of Truly Menacing Creatures, with 'bots

Re: [scifinoir2] The Future of Robot Scientists

2010-07-22 Thread Mr. Worf
The thing that I think is dangerous is allowing machines to create, test, and research without human intervention. The discovers that were made, as well as designing machines by machines can be extremely tricky. One of the quotes from the article stated that a machine was designing circuits that

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Expose the NCAA, not the athletes

2010-07-22 Thread Tracy Curtis
That all makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense to target Reggie Bush as though he had power as a student. USC's former coach was the highest paid university employee in the country at around $4.4 million when he resigned. This hasn't hurt him. The NFL salary is more than $7 million. But

[scifinoir2] Re: Who Wants Some Vampire Apocalypse?

2010-07-22 Thread B Smith
I'm on the waiting list for The Passage and I'll read The Fall ASAP. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Bosco Bosco ironpi...@... wrote: Got an advanced reading copy of the second book in the Guillermo Del Toro/Chuck Hogan trilogy. It's called the Fall. So far so good. Picks up right where