Star Wars and Star Trek are the big science fiction franchises, they are what most people think of when you say "science fiction". Star wars is an epic hero's journey where Luke grows from a farm boy to a hero who must confront his families dark past, redeem his father and resist the temptations that [...]

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. The US Congress is considering America's first system for censoring the Internet. Despite public outcry, the Internet Censorship bill could pass at any time. If it does, the Internet and free speech will never be the same:

October 21st was supposed to be the end of the world- or thats what Harold Camping said and it is now 10:00 pm mountain time US on December 23rd. That makes 12 times Camping was wrong. And what has he had to say about it? I’m sorry to disappoint you, but we at Family Radio [...]

Who came up with that stupid phrase and why did I use it? Anyway; listen to this: But if we live in the most peaceful time in human history why do we hear so many violent stories? Because due to the internet we have virtually unlimited access to information. If some one is murdered in [...]

Here we go again. I wander what will happen this time. Will the shock of bing wrong finally kill him? No he'll just slink back to his home and roll around necked in all the money his fallows gave him.

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I wasn't going to do any posting tod- ... tonight except for one but when I saw this story I had to post about. Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity IN JUST a few weeks single-celled yeast have evolved into a multicellular organism, complete with division of labour between cells. This suggests that the [...]