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We really are living in the future. Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), and DragonCon, the leading multimedia and popular culture convention, will run joint programming through a two-way video link. Chicon 7 and DragonCon attendees will be able to sample the flavor of each other’s events through a series of program…
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There are no shortage of reminders of the lack of attention span in today’s culture, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there’s already some murmurings that “geek chick” has “jumped the shark.” At the very least, those are two phrases that are well beyond cliché. The Hollywood Reporter gives some thought to the…
Headline typo of the day
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Happy 18th birthday, Simpsons!
The first episode of The Simpsons, titled "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" also known as "The Simpsons Christmas Special," premiered on this day in 1989 on the Fox Television — well, it wasn’t much of a network 18 years ago, but we have to call it that nowadays. We mention it because nobody ever…
