How do you perceive the future?

Dwayne A. Day over at The Space Review has written an article about how we perceive the future and the influence of the media on our preconceptions.
He looks at the two distinct visions of mankind’s future as portrayed on the screen; Star Trek/Babylon 5/Farscape type future versus Firefly/Cowboy Bebop and their creators ideas [...]

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Top Five Canceled TV Series

I came across a couple of blogs today that were looking at their favourite canceled TV shows, of course Joss Whedon shows figured highly, as did Tim Minear’s.
You can check them out over at Bullet Points and Ginger Miss.
But their posts got me to thinking, what would I put in my Top 5, especially [...]

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“Drive” Desktop Wallpaper and Avatars

Seeing as the arrival of “Drive” is getting ever nearer I have put together a wallpaper in various sizes (1024×768; 1280×800; 1280×1024; 1600×1200;) plus various icons/avatars at 100×100 pixels.
If anyone would like to use them you can download them from my DivShare account here:
http://www.divshare.com/download/165588-100
A link back would be appreciated if you do decide to use [...]

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Life Imitates Art: Paxilon Hydroclorate Available Soon (possibly)

One of the blog posts that I came across this week was by Kid Handsome over at scaggsville.blogspot.com

Kid was taking a look at this recent article in thisislondon.co.uk (see below) and drawing parallels between it and Joss Whedon’s “Serenity” movie:
I love government imposed utopias. Seriously, is Joss Whedon writing their proposed legislation so that [...]

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Making Changes

For those of you who may only read these posts in their RSS reader I just thought I would mention that I have made some changes to the look of this blog.
I am now using the theme “Misty Look” instead of K-2 and there is now a new header image using just Joss Whedon pictures. [...]

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Reports from WonderCon

After the Convention come the reports, and seeing as I didn’t get the chance to be at WonderCon, what with living on the wrong continent and all, I have to live vicariously.
Here are some links to some of the blogs that I have enjoyed reading through and have a Joss type connection:
Allyson Beatrice (author of [...]

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Whedon Books

In my Google Alerts today I came across a podcast over at Dragon Page that has an interview with Glenn Yeffeth of BenBella Books, the publisher’s who brought us such books as:
“Finding Serenity”Joss Whedon: the Genius Behind Buffy amongst others (affiliate links). The thing that I found of particular interest though was the mention [...]

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“Serenity” DVD Special Edition

According to The Digital Bits.com there will be a release of a Special Edition DVD of “Serenity” in July, something to really look forward to!
Joss himself has posted about this over at Whedonesque, excerpt below:

clipped from whedonesque.com

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Free copy of Buffy Season 8 #1 in PDF!

*update 04/03/07 Apparently the link was originally supposed to be super secret (i.e. for reviewers only) but word got out and Dark Horse have been sending emails (well, to at least one person) “chiding” people for posting the link. Dark Horse have changed the file to only the first six pages. I haven’t received any [...]

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Wonder Con News

From the California Browncoats, unfortunately Tim Minear will not be at WonderCon for the “Drive” panel:

clipped from californiabrowncoats.org

Urgent Update!
Tim Minear is no
longer able to attend WonderCon.� Our remaining panel and
signings schedule is unchanged.
The Drive panel
will still be happening with the remaining guests.
We will still have 2 different Drive promo items on hand at
the booth.
The [...]

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