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“A revealing way of describing science fiction is to say that it is part of a literary mode which one may call ‘fabril’*. ‘Fabril’ is the opposite of ‘pastoral’. But while the pastoral is an established and much discussed literary mode, recognized as such since early antiquity, its dark opposite has not yet been accepted,…
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This time last week, I was jumping out of an airplane in Hawai‘i. Probably the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done, and I’ll definitely be doing it again in the future. See the full set on my Facebook.
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tumblr_m9vqngMcjd1qz7fybo1 Three minutes of rain outside my window in Haleiwa, Hawai‘i
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The Book of the Future, NYTimes.com.
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Awesome original video by Brad Goodspeed showing planets viewed from Earth as if they were at the same distance as our moon.
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BBC’s The Planets is one of the best space documentary series I’ve found outside of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Instead of cheap computer animations, they use historical footage from interplanetary space probes to tell the story. The visuals and narration is top-notch. Both these series are on Netflix. Give ’em a watch.
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The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role. Pierre Bayard
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This render of the Enterprise-D is awesome. Go to Flickr to see the high-res and give this guy some props, please.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. Carl Sagan
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GPOY House from the International Space Station. The Bay Area is shown bottom near-right.
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[H]ip-hop guys really do view themselves as entrepreneurs. … and it comes through in the lyrics and music. How to run an organization intellectually is pretty trivial. But emotionally it’s very complex and people play on your emotions all the time. … and the rappers are only talking about the emotional challenge – the emotion…
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On Marketing Meetings
Marketing girl: We’re having a little difficulty [inventing the wheel]. Ford: What do you mean, difficulty? It’s the single simplest machine in the entire Universe! Marketing girl: Alright, Mr. Wiseguy. If you’re so clever, you tell us what colour it should be.
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“North Fucking Idaho” by Tyler Thompson.
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Be humble for you are made of earth Be noble for you are made of stars /via imaginary foundation (Google tells me this is a Serbian proverb)