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On this date in 1999, NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon’s surface. (via Wikipedia)
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On this date in 1999, NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon’s surface. (via Wikipedia)
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The new Dead Siren blog asks the question: What is the difference between Fandom with a capital F and simple imagination and are either a bad thing? And one of the editors called Sexy Fandom “just my sorta site.”
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On this date in 2005, astronomers announced their discovery of a possible 10th planet. Now what should they call it? I vote for a female deity from ancient long-dead civilizations, instead of a male one, for a change. (via Wikipedia)
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Mermaid hoaxes were perhaps popularized by P.T. Barnum and his famous circus. He advertised having the remains of a FeeJee Mermaid. FeeJee is the sucker spelling of Fiji I believe. Rotten.com describes these supposed remains as looking like a Hollywood pitch gone wrong: “It’s like Gremlins meets Piranha meets Ebirah!” PT Barnum went ahead and [...]
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Medical students in New Jersey sure know how to treat a girl. Linda Kay is apparently one uber-goth goth stripper. Police came to her house because they got a report that someone there was suicidal. Very gothic even if the suicidal person was apparently out running errands or something and not actually there. While the [...]
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An object purported to be somewhere between a mermaid and a sea monster just sold on eBay for $1,550. The seller calls the find a golden mermaid and refers to it as female. He explains his assumption that the mermaid is a she by pointing out the lack of a protruding sex organ. Really, though, [...]
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In honor of Comic Con, Comic Book Fonts is offering, not only new fonts with names like Battly Damaged and Speeding Bullet, but most of their catalog at 50% off. The sale goes through Friday, so head on over there if you’ve been thinking about creating your own comic book on the computer.
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IGN, now, just like MySpace, owned by the very savvy folks at FOX has its Comic Con galleries posted now. They have them broken down into convenient categories like The Babes of Tokyopop and Final Fantasy Figures.
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Galleries of pictures taken at the record-smashing Comic Con 2006 are already starting to post. ComingSoon.net has more than a hundred photos although most are not of people, but more importantly the booth babe galleries are starting to post, such as this Flickr gallery by Greg O’Connell, as reported by Comic Book Conventions.
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I’m apparently going to a dinner at The Omni and then getting some sleep tonight. However, everyone else appears to be going to the X-Sanguin V ball. Blue Blood has posted some photos from X-Sanguin IV.
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Here is a link to a second gallery of Comic Con photos on Blue Blood. I’m busy shopping for collectible Creature from the Black Lagoon Dolls networking at the Comic Con, so I’m not ranging very far afield for my posts this week.
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According to their site: We were the kids that lived down the street that at the age of 8 were putting on haunted houses for our friends. We were the ones that started setting up stuff in our yards in August for Halloween, and the ones that spent more time thinking up how to make [...]
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