If you like Science Fiction movies, this one is so bad, it might be good.

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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

Memories of hours spent playing D&D or AD&D.

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“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.” – Martin Luther

Last month I posted on the Darth Vader commercial for VW.

here is a darker spoof:

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“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us. Business doesn’t pay taxes, and who better than business to make this message known? Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business…Ronald Reagan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

This is supposed to be one of the commercials for tomorrows Superbowl.

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Elvis Costello, Interview in Musician magazine, October 1983

Don’t have time to watch the whole trilogy?  Here is the short version…

Hat Tip: SciFi Wire

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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

For the Science Fiction aficionados amongst the readers of this blog (or for my amusement), here is the trailer for the upcoming Season 1.5 of Stargate Universe.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

Hat tip: Fantasy & SciFi Lovin’ News & Reviews

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)