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Book Review: I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
I Am Legend is a difficult book to categorize. At first glance, it’s a vampire novel; an accurate characterization, because yeah, there are vampires in it. But the deeper meaning and metaphors behind them, the structure of the story, and the situation the main character finds himself in, make it feel more like a zombie…
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200 Bad Comics
Know how I’ve done the 100 Horror Movies thing? Well this guy has done something even awesomer by creating 200 bad comics. I think I’m addicted enough to go read every single one.
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Magnets: Beyond Holding Things to Fridges
Some random but fascinating tidbits that I’ve learned while writing my comps today: There are over fifty known sensory systems that have been identified in living things. Why, then, is a “sixth sense” seen as a far-out impossibility? The genome of bacteria that can sense magnetic fields is only about 4.3 megabytes. All the information…
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