Terry Pratchett talks a little trash about Doctor Who: “The unexpected, unadvertised solution which kisses it all better is known as a deus ex machina – literally, a god from the machine. And a god from the machine is what the Doctor now is… And yet, I will […]
At The Times Online, Stephen Hawking says contacting aliens could be dangerous. Lord Rees says aliens are possibly beyond any human’s ability to comprehend. We say, Go Team Lovecraft!
Science analyzes the best and worst types of genre movies. Results listed here.
The comics misunderstanding (i.e. respectful critical discussion) continues at The Groovy Age of Horror as Scott McCloud responds, a commenter gets in a dig and Curt Purcell writes more about homeostasis and how human brains process information. Geek fight! C’mon, fight! Fight?
Curt Purcell explores the gutters of the mind, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and a little bit of Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis.
Lady, That’s My Skull has fragments from a manifesto written by a disgruntled smoking scientist at a secret base in Nevada: “Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work.”
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The Cultural Gutter 