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good christ

TheStar.com - Sports - WWE Canadian wrestler Benoit, wife and son found dead:

STAMFORD, Conn. — Canadian pro wrestler Chris Benoit has been found dead at his suburban Atlanta home along with his wife Nancy and son, World Wrestling Entertainment said Monday.
“There are no further details at this time, other than the Benoit family residence is currently being investigated by local authorities,” the WWE said in a statement on its website.

well, thank god for that

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the use of creationist and other pseudo-scientific propaganda in Government-funded schools."

UK government's petition response: The Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as to whether creationism and intelligent design have a place in science lessons. The Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science. The science programmes of study set out the legal requirements of the science National Curriculum. They focus on the nature of science as a subject discipline, including what constitutes scientific evidence and how this is established. Students learn about scientific theories as established bodies of scientific knowledge with extensive supporting evidence, and how evidence can form the basis for experimentation to test hypotheses. In this context, the Government would expect teachers to answer pupils' questions about creationism, intelligent design, and other religious beliefs within this scientific framework. (emphasis mine) [TheRegister.co.uk, Slashdot]

My favorite /. Comment:

It's not really religion either.
God demands faith. God does not provide proof, because proof kills faith. If you see something that you think is proof of God's existence, you're wrong. He's ineffable. That means you can't effing figure him out.

this is not my beautiful futchar

yukihime.com » this was supposed to be the future: avestal 's actual blog:

Media scholar Henry Jenkins recently published an article about residual media–outmoded views of the future from a point in the past. Think of the ceramic spires of the 1939 World’s Fair, or the relentless utopias of 1950’s pulp SF. These futures are now generally viewed as overly silly or optimistic, given our wildly divergent present.
(...)
This recent, growing interest in the paleofuture is hardly surprising. As our unimagined future compresses to a single point, the weight of our memories grows ever more dominant. It’s so hard to create new dreams; how much nicer to relive the warmth of old ones! Subgenres like steampunk and alternative history play to this sense of inverted sensibilities; instead of optimism about what will be, we’re now nostalgic about what wasn’t; with a future devoid of promise, we take refuge in the past.

Brilliant.

I'm tempted to crosspost this to gameblather because it relates to not just SF in books/TV/film, but how we roleplay in it as well.

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it don't travel at all

ABC.com: Primetime - Traveler -- There were girls in high school that everybody in my group of friends wanted to go out with, and more than a few of the boys did. Those girls were were smart, funny, pretty, and a little bit crazy; cruel talk had it that they might be "easy" as well; or so rumor had it. When I asked one that I was particularly smitten with to go out, just after graduation (and perhaps about the time that women were becoming very canny about playing to their audience) I was hopeful about all the kind of things testosterone and romance addled naive lads are hopeful about.

I spent a lot of time on the phone with her, and helping with school projects, and spent a fair bit of cash on restaurants and in general no small amount of time. It never went anywhere; plenty of teasing, but (no) not even a kiss.

I've watched the first two episodes of Traveler. I'm debating on the third episode, but it's beginning to feel a lot like those dates.