I’m a collector. I’ve got numerous comics, books, and movies to keep track of. It’s also a safe bet that a number of Bureau readers do as well. Below, I’ll describe how I keep track of mine, and open the floor for the alternatives our users are using.
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Category Archives: Ask The Bureau
Bill Gates meets Jerry Seinfeld
They get Bill and Jerry together for an ad, and this is the best they can come up with?
Hugo Awards
Denvention 3, the Sixty-Sixth World Science Fiction Convention, winds down today after mind-bending days and nights. I’ll have photos, commentary, and video up next weekend or thereabouts. Meanwhile, here’s the scoop on last night’s Hugo Awards.
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Monster of Montauk
Since Tuesday, the debate has raged over the identity of this corpse which washed ashore on Long Island. Is it a turtle, dog, or raccoon? A beast as yet unknown to science? The result of a mad experiment? A viral marketing campaign?
Video below.
What do bureau-crats believe?
It Came From Pulp Words To Pop Visuals
rickyjames writes, Quality science fiction has left its original pulp literary roots behind to become primarily a visual medium, according to Entertainment Weekly’s “New Classics: 1983-2008” lists. Roughly a half-dozen SF entries are found in both the TV and Movies lists, with The X-Files at 4th place and The Matrix at 12th. Neuromancer made the Books list, at 26th. I’m sorting this as “Ask the Bureau” because it spans so many categories, and because I’m going to ask people what they’d include or exclude from the lists if they made them.
Best Captains in Space?
Annalee Newitz offers these suggestions for highly effective spaceship captains.
Real-life Superheroes
This recent article looks at the number of real-life “superheroes” active today. Are these people helpful eccentrics, or has their sanity gone up, up, and away?
Is Science Fiction Out Of Ideas?
rickyjames writes, Entertainment Weekly magazine has a article out this week called “Is Science Fiction Out Of Ideas?“. Makes some interesing points worth thinking about and discussing, particularly for a general public magazine…
Hugos Awarded September 2
A number of this year’s nominees have been reviewed here at the Bureau. Any bets on who’ll win the awards, next week in Yokohama?
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Star Wars vs. Harry Potter
chad writes, Over at Quibblo they\’re having a vote to see who would win in fights between various Star Wars and Harry Potter characters. As much as I hate to say it, I think Voldemort would stomp Darth Vader, and twelve house elves would totally destroy twelve Ewoks. I’ve got to go with Vader against Voldemort, but the ewoks wouldn’t stand a chance.