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Published on June 8, 2009

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Here (re)begins a weekly sampling of some cool things on the internet!

  • Futurama might return to Comedy Central with 13 more episodes!  (via io9)
  • On that note, musings on whether Firefly might ever be resurrected. I know, I know, it will never happen, but I need a fix and OH GOD, I can’t stop looking for signs. (via Sci Fi Scanner)
  • It might be more productive to start drawing floor plans for Jay Garmon’s ideal Serenity restaurant, or the geek project of my own lotto-winning dreams. (Library + armory = librarmory?)
  • Laser etchings can make liquid flow uphill. (via Futurismic)
  • New art for a UK version of Brandon Sanderson’s The Final Empire. I think it’s lovely and creepy and would like to hang it by my bed, but it is more surreal/slipstream than straight-up invented-world fantasy, so I’m not sure how I feel about it on a Sanderson book.
  • Nerd word of the week: unobtainium!

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15 years ago

tor.com writers should know that, for those reading in RSS, there is no cut. Not that it matters here, but it has mattered on other occasions.

I know some blogging platforms have cuts that RSS feeders honor (or rather, have RSS feeders that honor the cuts). I don’t know if tor.com’s software can.

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15 years ago

You have a bad link to the mega-calendar story; from the source of this page:

http:// http://blogs.discovery.com/twisted_physics/2009/06/dream-a-little-dreaming.html

There’s an extra http:// and then a space. FYI!

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15 years ago

I addition to Garmon’s definition of unobtainium (as a synonym for handwavium and wishalloy), I’ve also heard it used as a way to express that something is far out of reach, financially or otherwise.

As so:

“OMG!!! I am so dying for that 43″ curved screen monster monitor. Unfortunately, at $8000, it’s apparently made of pure unobtainium.”

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Jay Garmon
15 years ago

Holy Frak, two namechecks in one post? I must be living right. Thanks!

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15 years ago

If only I had a spare grand lying around for the new edition of the Martian Chronicles!
And that cover for Sanderson was absolutely amazing! I love weird covers like that, even if it is for epic fantasy.