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Monster movie posters, via BoingBoing.

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date March 03, 2002

LinkMacgineGo should have an RSS

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date February 25, 2002

LinkMacgineGo should have an RSS feed or something. Just looting his links, here’s Hostess Villains from SeanBaby.com, an essay on Alan Moore’s story The Anatomy Lesson which de/re-constructed the Swamp Thing, and… well, that’s enough for now.

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Etgar Ker(r)et has a book

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date February 23, 2002

Etgar Ker(r)et has a book out in English, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God : And Other Stories.
Here’s a nice review and here are the comments at Amazon.
Looking his up on Google, it’s remarkable in how many different languages he’s mentioned.

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A Spanish study on social

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date February 23, 2002

A Spanish study on social networks in the Marvel Universe reveals that:

Captain America is the most connected superhero in the Marvel Universe (considering that Spiderman met someone new in each issue of Marvel Team-up, Cap’s win is a triumph of comic-universe logic over commercial logic, I guess).
The social networks in the MU are less clustered then in the real world – people don’t hang out with their friends’ friends as much.

Anyway, it’s a joy to see science at work…

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Greg Bear has problems with

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date February 22, 2002

Greg Bear has problems with the Central Dogma of Biology (cool article about current life science). Also, he’s got a column about the difficulties of cloning.