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The Resistance went into the past to film “Colossus: The Forbin Project” and “Cyborg: 2087” but the warning was unheeded

I’m a day or three late with this, but I’m posting it for the links, in particular. I highly recommend the Fox series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was a very worthy addition to the story, and which evolved in interesting ways over two or so seasons. (It is pretty grim for TV.) I’ll tell you the ending because it isn’t a spoiler, in that the series doesn’t depend on this surprise: teen-aged John Connor ends up in a future where John Connor is unknown. I would have liked to see that storyline extended.

Skynet Online Today, Self-Aware Thursday! | NETFLIX STREAMING – The unofficial Netflix blog!

According to the (what I can only assume) is the official Terminator wiki page:

April 19, 2011. At 20:11 Skynet goes online.
As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800[1] destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved to two days after activation on April 21, 2011.[2]

When this happens, this happens within the movie Terminator 2. …

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Skynet Online Today, Self-Aware Thursday! | NETFLIX STREAMING – The unofficial Netflix blog!

5 stars, Viddy

A Knight’s Tale (4+ Stars)

We watched A Knight’s Tale on DVD a second time. While set in the Middle Ages, the language, *most* of the behavior, and the soundtrack were all modern. It was quite entertaining, though it could have been a half hour shorter. Heath Ledger stars but the entire ensemble is great. Paul Bettany is fabulous as Chaucer. (Bettany played my favorite character in A Beautiful Mind.) Kudos to Alan Tudyk as Wat. (Tudyk was fabulous as Wash in Firefly, my favorite SciFi TV series.)

For no good reason, this disc sat around here for more than 6 weeks last fall and at least 10 days this time. We didn’t get our money’s worth of discs from Netflix during that time, but we watch Roku daily, so we’re happy with the cost.

A Knight’s Tale (2001) – IMDb

UNRATED  132 min  -  Action | Romance   -  Available on demand

A Knight's Tale Poster

Users: 6.6/10 (48,290 votes) 614 reviews | Critics: 148 reviews

After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.

Director:

Brian Helgeland

Writer:

Brian Helgeland

Stars:

Heath Ledger, Mark Addy and Rufus Sewell

Release Date:

11 May 2001 (USA)

Watch Trailer »

A Knight’s Tale (2001) – IMDb

Note: There is something strange going on with the poster from this movie. I see it on IMDB; I see it in my blog editor; I don’t see it on my blog. Go to IMDB if you want to see it.

The Atheist's Pulpit

Swiping Two Cites from Two Sites

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The Independent.UK: ‘Pantheist’ Lincoln would be unelectable today.

”At one time in his life, to say the least, he was an elevated Pantheist, doubting the immortality of the soul as the Christian world understands that term. He believed that the soul lost its identity and was immortal as a force.”

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NewMexiKen | Provocative line of the day

“I often argue that the concept of ‘atheism’ is unnecessary and misleading. Nearly everyone rejects Zeus, Thor, Isis, along with the countless other dead gods of antiquity, and yet no one feels the need to name this condition of unbelief.”

Sam Harris

Penn Jillette says it best: “I believe that there is no God. I’m beyond atheism.”

NewMexiKen | Provocative line of the day

I’m beyond antagonosticism (my coinage), but not yet beyond anti-theism.

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Happy Grass Moon, everyone!

The Sky This Week, 2011 April 12 – 19 — Naval Oceanography Portal

The Moon continues to brighten the evening sky this week, waxing to her Full phase on the 17th at 10:44 pm Eastern Daylight Time.  April’s Full Moon is popularly known as the Grass Moon or Egg Moon in Native American skylore, but it also happens to be a very important marker in the religious calendars of Jews and Christians.  Known as the Paschal Moon, it sets the beginning of Passover and fixes the date of Easter.

The Sky This Week, 2011 April 12 – 19 — Naval Oceanography Portal

NADA - New American Dark Ages

“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.” (58 years ago)

Cross of Iron Speech

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms in not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. 
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953.

Cross of Iron Speech

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams