Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

Here are some fun mock motivational posters from gate_haven. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I think I’d have to go with Education.

You are Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard 70% Will Riker 65% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 60% Data 59% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 55% Uhura 50% Chekov 50% Geordi LaForge 50% Spock 49% Beverly Crusher 40% Deanna Troi 40% Mr. Scott 35% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Worf 25% Mr. Sulu 25%

A lover of Shakespeare and other fine literature. You have a decisive mind and a firm hand in dealing with others.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

Via Scotty and Redshirt #12.

GeekPress linked a free filk: Singularitarian by Charlie Kam. There’s allegedly an mp3, but it’s actually in some nasty MicroSoft feed format.

Get it while it’s up: Voltaire’s The Sexy Data Tango is available from Fugly. I doubt it’s a legal copy. You can buy the real thing from Projeck: darkwave.

Latte link of the day: Latte Art via GeekPress

Not sure what to buy your favorite fan in this potlatch season? The Noble Collection has LotR and Harry Potter chachkas. Who could resist their own One Ring? (Personally, I think the engraved tengwar are too thick.)

Gmail RSS link of the day: Ask Yahoo answers the eternal question, What is the origin of the term “hands down”?

It’s that time of year again! Suffer with Seema as she wonders about another year of holiday shoes. Or celebrate the solstice with the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s holiday album, A Very Scary Solstice. They have three free Cthulhu Carols to download.

Fandemonium Books is planning a series of Stargate: Atlantis novels which will, unlike their Stargate novels, be available in the US. Read more about it their site.

I didn’t even have to cheat, though it did come down to a tiebreaker with BSG and the Matrix folks.

Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? v1.0
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Build your own Stargate out of Lego! There are more stargates and Jaffa on the same site.

Happy Beta Reader Appreciation Day to my underemployed beta readers!