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I wouldn't be surprised if there has been at some point. Of course, then there's also the question of whether terrestrial life started on Mars and migrated here via meteors, or the other way around... For that matter, why would any alien intelligence bother contacting us?

I bottle and carbonate my own water. (...that sounded dirty. I meant TAPwater.) Is there life on Mars?

Awesomely enough, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are back after about 10 years of silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0

Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires

Neil Gaiman's Journal: Author meets world New radio adaptation of Neverwhere in the works, starring people like Christopher Lee, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch ("Sherlock"), Bernard Cribbins ("Doctor Who"), Anthony Head ("Buffy"), Andrew Sachs (MANUEL!) and others.

Calhobinist for life!

I just realised why that name sounded familiar: the guy behind this is also the creator of Dinosaur Comics. Hooooo boy.

'Tis only a confirmation of what I always knew, my child. :innocent: Brent, disabling spam links seems to work for me - thanks!

Obviously. You can never have just one kaiju.

A lot of Takashi Miike's stuff is (well, either bizarre or just incredibly gory, and frequently both). I don't think I've actually seen Gozu, I should probably remedy that.

That's more like it, thanks a lot!

Thanks for listening! Well, mostly I'm thinking of the "recent threads" thing that I've pointed out several times. Up until recently, it was a) down at the bottom of the page, where it didn't take up valuable page width for those of us who browse the web on phones, b) had the option of...

For those who don't know about Adblock: Adblock Plus — for annoyance-free web surfing There might be some way to weed out sponsored links as well. I'll check it out tomorrow if the admin hasn't ditched them by then. ETA: Also, as of yesterday Adblock is available for Android phones too...

Woah, didn't see those. Yeah, that's gotta go if they don't want the users to go instead. Plenty of forums out there that don't have them. There's been a few too many changes here lately that only seem to make the site worse...

Wait, there are still ads on the internet? I haven't seen a single one since Adblock.

Again, how come self-published self-promoters pretending to just be another reader and copypasting some review they posted on Amazon under a fake name never mention the name of the author they're trying to promote? Can you imagine if other businesses used the same approach to marketing? "For...

Hamlet rewritten as choose-your-own-adventure game book | Books | guardian.co.uk

Just because someone's in the publishing industry doesn't necessarily mean they know how to promote something on the internet - see this article for instance. I don't know what your situation is, but if a publisher doesn't have the budget or know-how to promote their books themselves, it's very...

Breaking out the first batch of herring and aquavit and blasting Jussi Björling's "O Holy Night" at midnight on Christmas Eve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrDfqoYzNo Same?

Watching Donald Duck. Are you looking forward to or dreading snow?