Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
1. No conference tables. Conference tables are death to good science fiction. The “I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing” scene is the last time anything cool has ever been done around a conference table.
2. No handrails. Bottomless pits look so much more awesome without any handrails and so do staircases.
3. No old women and no young men. The buxom planet-princess who’s never met a real man before, only needs a father; a mother would just be in the way. And Captain Kirk doesn’t need any competition from another young stud.
4. No foreign languages. No matter how far away the planet is, everyone should speak perfect English.
5. There m-u-s-t be gravity, artifical or otherwise, EVERYWHERE.
6. Fat guys should always die first.
7. No geography. When you land on a planet, the guy who runs the planet should be no more than thirty feet away. When the bad guys catch you and put you in a holding cell on a space station as big as the moon, the computer that holds the bad guy’s secrets should be right across the hall from the detention block.
8. All ancient alien computers should have a self-destruct mechanism built in so that any unexpected piece of data, logical contradiction, buffer overflow, general protection fault, file seek error or divide-by-zero error should result in explosive self-destruction, preferably involving fire. All the better if it sets off a chain reaction that destroys the entire complex in which it is housed.
9. Girls should, at the worst possible time, lose complete control of themselves, a state which can be cured only by means of a well-meaning gentleman applying a brisk impact to the face which causes them to fall into a deep sleep so they can be carried to safety.
10. Robots should be anthropomorphic, they should always have personality unless they’re “medical droids.”
11. Bad guys can’t shoot straight.
12. When the Captain gives an order to the crew, they should follow it to the letter unless they’ve been taken over by exotic space viruses or evil alien beings. When the Captain receives an order from his superiors, though, the orders are all fouled up, and evidence that the superiors have been taken over by exotic space viruses or evil alien beings.
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