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The Flaming Lips’ “Fwends” Disappoints

November 7, 2014 by Elizabeth Lane Leave a Comment

There are very few ways that a full-album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band can succeed. How do you take an album that’s so beloved, well-known, and – arguably – perfect, and cover it? As proof that it would be possible, I’d give you Beck’s side project, Record Club, where Beck and an…

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Post-Apocalyptic Avian Nightmare: Another Look At The Bird Dating Simulator

October 27, 2014 by Elizabeth Lane Leave a Comment

Maybe you missed our review of Hatoful Boyfriend, the Japanese game where you can dream the impossible dream: go to a birds-only school and date the most handsome and comely of fowl. Or maybe you saw it, and thought the whole premise was stupid. But as we were discussing this stupid/amazing game in the Bitter…

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Commercially Viable Nuclear Fusion Is Here, Soon, Any Time Now

October 16, 2014 by Elizabeth Lane 1 Comment

We think the sun is pretty neat. It’s been working hard 24/7 for the last 4.5 billion years, frantically pushing out light and heat. Don’t you wish you had something working that hard for you? Wouldn’t you like a mini-star that you could cart around on the back of a truck, that could provide enough…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: death-peddlers, fusion, Lockheed Martin, scitech

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