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Science Fiction and Fantasy Software and Programming

Israeli sites and RSS

Shoshanah Forbes has a post with assorted news about Israeli blogging and RSS. Of interest to me is her casual mention of an RSS feed for HaAyal HaKore, which uses the same backend as the Society site. I got excited for a moment to find, that although Nir hadn’t put an RSS Autodiscovery link in the HTML, I get a response when typing in the URL http://sf-f.org.il/xml/rss. Unfortunately, it’s currently just the message RSS not supported by this Backlash installation.

Hopefully, Nir will bug Tal into getting something live there.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Who

Only on his second post did I realize that Andrew Rilstone was counting down the days until the British premiere of the new Doctor Who series. Unlike certain Internet-downloading, gun-jumping sorts, he’s treating this like an event.

Now as much as I anticipate a week-long Rilstone rant, culminating, I presume, with a post-premiere review, my interest flaggs somewhat when I think that I’ll probably have no idea what he’s talking about until, well, whenever I get to see the series, which, not being British or a torrenting person, is probably never.

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Blather Comics Science Fiction and Fantasy

What I listened to today

What I listened to today:
Nebulous is a BBC 4 radio Sci-Fi Comedy show starring Mark Gatiss as the brilliant but troubled Professor Nebulous, eco trouble shooter. The episode I heard featured rivalry and sentient dust. Good and funny stuff.
Jonathan Ross is a weekly radio show with celebrity interviews, idle banter and good music. My brother pointed me to it, saying that Ross shares our musical taste (as proof, he has to play a Bowie song on every show). Unlike the hideous Reshet Gimel broadcasters of my youth, who frustrated my home taping efforts (my generation’s puny piracy technology) by overlapping the songs with their chatter, Ross never talks while the music is playing, and the site has playlists for the current and previous shows, if you fancy any of the songs.

Genkin points out that this Thursday (January 27th) there’s a BBC show called Chain Reaction where you can hear Alan Moore being interviewed. If I recall correctly, the week after that, they have Alan Moore interviewing Brian Eno.

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Comics Science Fiction and Fantasy

Dark He-Man

Marko Djurdjevic’s He-Man Redesign (via Uncle Bear) reimagines one of the silliest TV shows/Toy lines from the 80’s into something very dark and surprisingly cool. His Skeletor is a Marlyn Manson-ish “evil fag” (actually, he reminds me more of P. Craig Russell‘s take on Elric, but that just dates me), his Evil-Lyn is Not Work Safe (Frankenstein fetish full frontal), his supporting cast is really cool (all those funky helmets finally removed from the plastic bodybuilder standard molds and put onto bodies and costumes that make them look good).

Only the good guys (He-Man and Teela) come out ironically as rather ‘blah’. He-Man with a Kurt Cobain hairstyle and despondant attitude is, well, lame.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Aragon vs. Sauron, man-to-man

From Amazon’s description of the extended Return of the King DVD:

and there’s a riveting storyboard/animatic sequence of the climactic scene, which includes a one-on-one battle between Aragorn and Sauron.

What?
Yeah, I always thought that Lord of the Rings could be improved considerably by including a final fight scene in which Aragorn tests the mettle of Anduril against an appropriately evil-named mace wielded by the big burning eye. Like, you know, Luke crossing lightsabers with Vader in Return of the Jedi, which we waited to see since the first Star Wars (star fighter duels do not cut it).

(Over on the livejournal mirror of this post, I have fun with Shiffer’s proposed Aragorn / Vader match-up)