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(Via Paul DiFilippo)

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
Born in Somerset, he came to fame in 1968 when a short story The Sentinel was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by director Stanley Kubrick.
Once called “the first dweller in the electronic cottage”, his vision of future space travel and computing captured the popular imagination.
An aide said he died at 0130 local time after a cardio-respiratory attack.

(Via. Via.)

Quick Toughts:

The Comedian: WIN

Rorschach: WIN

Nite Owl: FAIL

Silk Spectre: WTF?

Ozymandias: NIPPLES!

(From the Watchmen Production Blog)

When I got back on monday, I started seeing this pretty much everywhere:

The text comes Sandman #4, written by Neil Gaiman. There’s something kind of creepy beneath all of this… However, the author of the original dialogue doesn’t mind, so who am I to object this.

This is really interesting. People are using Twitter and Google Maps to talk about the primaries.

You can look at it here.

Protocol for the february 10 manifestations.

Different conversations about these videos are popping out everywhere. Here they are:

From what I’ve read, Anonymous is planning unspecified action on February 10 in such cities as New York, Montreal, Houston, London, Melbourne, and Los Angeles.

There’s something in their message that makes you believe that they’re serious about their message. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of method.

I like these people.

I wanted to see Cloverfield (it’s released here in… two weeks?), but after reading this…

I saw Cloverfield last night, and nothing about it bugged me more than those quotes around “Central Park” on the DoD evidence tag that opens the film. It immediately tells us that this film has not been made by native science fiction minds. If Central Park is no longer called Central Park, but is officially referred to as “the area formerly known as ‘Central Park’”, but the DoD still exists, we know that this is not a *far-future* evidence tag. So if Central Park is now known as “The Killing Fields”, or “The Ghastly Black Glass Ocean”, then *tell* us. Those quotes are extraordinarily clumsy (and the card itself is typographically unconvincing).

Very first thing in the film. Matters. Hugely.

John Jakala’s two-year-old daughter reads Masashi Tanaka’s Gon.

I was thinking on doing the same with my nephew, but I need to wait a little. Otherwise he’ll just tear the book to pieces, like usual…

(Via Comics 212)

“The difference between Will Smith and myself is I AM Legend.”

I totally agree.