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Almost exactly a year ago, I came across a bit of woo so incredible, so spectacularly stupid and unbelievable, that I dedicated one of the last segments I've done in a long time of Your Friday Dose of Woo to it.
Respectful Insolence
Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center
If you're heading to WonderCon and have Jack Kirby original art in your collection, please bring it to the show for us to scan for our Original Art Digital Archive. OR we may be able to visit your home or office, since we'll be around a day before and after the show. Feel free to send me an email at scans@kirbymuseum.org to see if we can arrange something.
space1970
If you’re a regular reader of Space 1970 you’re already more than familiar with the 1979 television series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century .
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is one of my favorite TV shows of all time – really, it is!
Jon's Random Acts of Geekery
New York has been blown up, beaten down and attacked in every medium imaginable throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. From movies to novels to newspapers, there’s just something so terribly apocalyptic in the American psyche that we must see our most populous city’s demise over and over again. Before WWII, these visions of New York’s destruction took the form of tidal waves, fires or giant ape attacks — but after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in Hiroshima and Nagaski, the atom was suddenly the new leveler of cities.
Paleofuture
Strange Maps | Big Think
Frank Jacobs loves maps, but finds most atlases too predictable. He collects and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006, first on WordPress and now for Big Think. His map " US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs " has been viewed more than 587,000 times.
ZooBorns
The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium , working along with the Alaksa SeaLife Center , has provided a safe home for a newborn Sea Otter pup found stranded along an Alaskan coastline. He was found lying next to other sea otters, all who had died from exposure when they were cut off from the ocean by a frozen bay; In an attempt to get to the ocean, they accidentally beached themselves off the coast of Port Heiden.
Polite Dissent
Will is young man with diabetes who has been blind since birth. While trying to cross the street one day, he is overcome by the suddenly extremely loud sounds of the city and is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro hospital for evaluation. House initially suggests that Will must be hyperglycemic and hyperosmotic (too much sugar in the blood, and the blood is too concentrated, a severe complication of diabetes), but the lab studies don’t bear that out.
GamePolitics News | GamePolitics
InXile announced that it will work with Obsidian Entertainment to design Wasteland 2, but only if its Kickstarter funding reaches $2,100,000. The Kickstarter's original goal was $900,00. It is currently inching towards $1.7 million.No matter how many years we have played MMOs, we shouldn't forget that we all had to start somewhere.