I love the culture Universe, but sometimes the pacing can… drag.

Iain M. Banks: Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built

To celebrate the release of Iain M. Banks’ novel Matter, we’ve put together this handy primer for you on the Culture, the pan-galactic civilization whose members and ex-members are the subjects of so many Banks novels, including Matter. Not only do we have a rundown of every single Culture novel, but we’ve also got some important excerpts from an obscure essay Banks wrote in 1994 about the ideas behind the Culture universe. Get ready to enter a world where ships are sentient, humans live for half a millennium, and living on a planet is probably the most backward thing you can do.

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Iron Fist is one of the best comics out there, and Iron Man can be a great character (look at the first Ultimate run).  This could be cool.

EXCLUSIVE: Fraction & Larroca on Iron Man - Marvel.com News

“Iron Man” will make its way into theaters everywhere on May 2, but writer Matt Fraction (IMMORTAL IRON FIST) and artist Salvador Larroca (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) will launch Tony Stark into INVINCIBLE IRON MAN later that month.

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It sounds like a SciFi story, but it’s not.

A Primeval Tide of Toxins - Los Angeles Times

The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour.

When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes burned and swelled shut. Water that splashed from their nets spread the inflammation to their legs and torsos.

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I’d watch that.

The Big Picture with Colin Boyd

“I talked with Neil Gaiman…I said, that’s an interesting character because you can definitely make him more in the pulpy occult detective/magician mould and formula than was done in the Weird Tales, for example…the idea of a character that really dabbles in the occult in a way that’s not X-Filey, where the supernatural is taken for granted. That’s interesting…But I wouldn’t use the suit!”

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Some of those are nice.  I’d stay there.  Ok, not STAY, but you get the idea.

‘Frauenzimmer’ - Bordelle in Deutschland: Lack, Leder und Lavalampen - Unterhaltung - stern.de

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Imagine the giant General Tso’s! 

Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food to China - New York Times

When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee
went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of
chicken — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. “Enough to feed a
family of eight,” said Frank Puleo, a caterer from Staten Island who
has traveled to China to handle food-related issues.

“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive.”

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I guess it’s better than gambling.  Except the prizes kinda suck.

Winner takes all - Life - The Phoenix

“A decade ago, I was entering about 50 contests a month by mail,” recalls Weth. “Now it’s seven or eight a month by mail, and about 50 a day online.” Weth spends one or two hours a day, on his lunch break or after his audio-engineering job, perusing a set of bookmarked sites, including online-sweepstakes.com.

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This is why I watch more BBC than ABC.

Phoo Action: Buddhist Kung-Fu Cops Fight Crime in 2012 London

In the year 2012, buddhist kung-fu cops team up with teenage anarchist daughters of the establishment to fight supercrime!

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I don’t have a use for this, but I want one.

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That’s a pretty good deal.  And I don’t see Yahoo going out of business this week, unlike some of the cheap web hosts I have used in the past.

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Our new Yahoo! Web Hosting plan offers unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited email storage, and 1,000 email accounts — all for $11.95 a month.

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