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Archive for February, 2004

Switch, Linux Stylee

|link| Maybe you’ve seen the Apple Switch commercials? Here’s a funny one for Linux… yeah, I want to be a super villian and have fembots, too! (Flash)

submitted by: hawkeye

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Q! Which Fictional World?

If the world was transformed into a work of fiction (book, film, lymric, whatever…), what work would you want it transformed into?

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Top Five: Overpriced Things

Name five things that cost way more than they should (and what you’re paying now and what they should actually cost if so inclined). No points awarded for gasoline/petrol prices because I pay more than any of you.

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The Future Timeline

Predicting the future is a strange thing and fiction writers have been speculating and writing stories set in the future for a long time now. Here is a timeline starting at 1984 that includes movies about the future set in their purported years, and here is another timeline that includes books in the timeline.

originally posted by: dugh found on sci-fi storm

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Open Call for Submissions

We are making an open call for submissions for reviews and editorials.
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Floating Top Five and Q!

We’re making a slight adjustment to the Top Five and Q! (Question of the Week) entries so they will remain floating at the top of the page a few extra days. This will allow you to find them easier and encourage responses. New entries will appear below them, so don’t forget to scroll down if you fail to see new links!

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The Man Song

|link| It’s the Man Song, telling just how rough and tough a man can really be in relation to women!

submitted by: an unlikely person in SLO

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The Realtor never mentioned body parts…

|link| A couple in England lost their case against their home’s former owner. Apparently no one told them that there may still be body parts hidden around the property.
originally posted by: odd

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Shadow Ball

|link| From Japan comes yet another shadow theater enactment. “Some really WEIRD shadow thing (how DID they do that?)”

submitted by: kymberlee

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Want to Meet an Author?

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Some of my favorite authors keep in touch with this site. I have also found several writers that I had never bothered to look at before. A fun index in any case.
originally posted by: skooz

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