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Random: (Almost) All SciFi Geekery Edition!

Posted by anamariecox Monday, August 4, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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• Newest weapon in the war on terror: Knight Rider! You think Cheney will use the show as an example of why we should allow prisoners to be interrogated by talking cars? [io9]

• Fight for your mental privacy! And, speaking of the Bush admin, what would they say to Heather having a Mommy with two heads? [io9]

• A major element in my "sci-fi geeks overlap heavily with political wonks" theory (besides personal experience): They both love world-building! [SF Signal]

• And as for the "sci-fi geeks overlap heavily with BUSHIE political wonks" theory: They both believe "post-democracy"! [again with the io9]

• And might as well be science fiction: "Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardens International... hopes to convince the next US president to make a small vegetable garden on the 19 acres of grass surrounding the White House." [Boing Boing]

UPDATE: There's this, too.

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