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One for the Rhymer

Ananova: Hotel creates Batman room

A hotel has dedicated a room to Batman.
The room at the Hilton hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina resembles a cave and is full of interactive games and videos showing sequences of batman movies.
It even has a secret passage that leads to the adjacent room.
A spokesperson for the hotel said: “We decided to dedicate the room to Batman because we think he is the coolest superhero and with the new movie out lots of people got into the batmania again.”

[ via Uncle Bear ]
Update: Boojie found a picture: Batcave in Buenos Aires

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Worse mistake in Human history

Jared Diamond on The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (something like that deserves to be in All Caps, right?)
[ link via Kottke ]

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Oddities Science Fiction and Fantasy

Scientists locate sarcasm in the brain

I just had to share a news item titled Scientists locate sarcasm in the brain (via Peter Watts). Not surprisingly, Israelis are at the forefront of this research, labouring in the sarcasm-rich environment of the University of Haifa and the Rambam Medical Center.
Peter Watts comments: So sarcasm and irony are more advanced traits than religion and morality. No surprise there, but it’s nice to get empirical confirmation.

I got pointed back to Watts’ site by a link to a presentation he put up about Vampire Domestication, a sort of promo for his new book.

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Oddities Science Fiction and Fantasy

U.N.I.T

The U.N.I.T website (linked to by Steve Jackson) appears to be the actual site featured on the fifth Doctor Who episode. Kewl.

Update: reminds me that the password for the secure login is buffalo.
Also sorta related, here’s a page with all the Doctor Who themes.

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Nick Mamatas’ dating tips

Nick Mamatas’ dating tips:

As someone who is fat, poor, ugly, never leaves the house, and dresses like a blind homeless person, I’ve had more than my share of relationships with desirable, attractive, women. Yes, many of them were insane. But still.

This cartoon someone left in the comments is also cute.

Update: The post is gone, as explained here.