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Jonesing for Doctor Who

April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Jonesing for Doctor Who · Culture, Doctor Who, Lit, Media, News, Science Fiction, TV

Season 3 of Doctor Who is off to a great start, premiering on the BBC this past Saturday night to an appreciative 35.9% of the UK TV audience. Episode 1, “Smith and Jones,” served up rhino-headed aliens called The Judoon, a hospital on the moon, and of course the debut of the Doctor’s new companion, […]

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Doctor Who Fires Up the Tardis

March 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, Doctor Who, News, Science Fiction, TV

It’s a good week to be a Whovian — Season 3 of Russell T. Davies’ new Doctor Who series premieres on the BBC next Sunday, March 31. And a fourth season has been greenlit for 2008! Hello Magazine has some tantalizing details about the premiere of Season 3, which will introduce the Doctor’s new sidekick […]

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News: A Hive of Spam and Villainy

March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on News: A Hive of Spam and Villainy · Activism, Food, Health, Heroes, Internet, LGBT, News, Peace, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Tech, TV

• A pair of hackers are promising to expose a month’s worth of MySpace bugs to draw attention to security problems with the site. … two hackers going by the names of Mondo Armando and Müstaschio promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, News Corp.’s popular social networking site, every day next month. “The […]

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Where No Trek Has Gone Before

March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Where No Trek Has Gone Before · Culture, Film, HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Science Fiction, TV

Good news for gay Trekkers: David Gerrold’s infamous gay episode of Star Trek, “Blood and Fire,” is finally getting made, as part of the online fan series New Voyages. You might recall Gerrold as the man who wrote the episode often cited as the most popular Star Trek story of all time, “The Trouble with […]

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