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Won’t someone please think of the children!

Source: Flickr (From DragonCon 2008)

1927
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) goes on the air, with forty-seven radio stations. The radio network will lose a substantial amount of money in its first year, and on January 18, 1929, Columbia Records will sell the network to a group of private investors headed by William S. Paley, a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer, for four hundred thousand dollars.

1947
National Security Act goes into effect. The act, in part, creates the Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s first peacetime intelligence agency.

1948
BBC Television transmits the first documentary film made especially for television, Robert Barr’s Germany Under Control.

Columbia Records publishes the first catalog of Long Playing (LP) record releases.
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Last Week’s Best-Selling Genre Books

1. Brisingr (Inheritance 3)
2. The Shack
3. Twilight
4. Breaking Dawn (Twilight 4)
5. Eclipse (Twilight 3)
6. New Moon (Twilight 2)
7. Anathem
8. 39 Clues: Maze of Bones
9. Watchmen
10. Living Dead in Dallas
    (Southern Vampires 2)

Source: Amazon.com

New Releases

The following books will be released this week:

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Knopf Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0375826726) Hardcover. Length: 784 pages
The third book in the Inheritance series, Eragon continues his quest to overthrow King Galbatorix following his defeat at the hands of his cousin at the end of the second book.
Release: September 20

An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
Tor Books. (ISBN-13: 978-0765321336) Hardcover. Length: 304 pages
Billed as “Lovecraft meets Blade Runner,” this supernatural horror novel set one hundred years in the future tells the story of an actress in a relationship with both a private detective and a powerful interplanetary traveler when everything goes wrong.
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1683
Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes to the Royal Society reporting his discovery of microscopic living animalcules (live bacteria). He had made observations on the plaque between his own teeth, “a little white matter, which is as thick as if ’twere batter.” Looking at these samples with his microscope, Leeuwenhoek reports, “I then most always saw, with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving. The biggest sort. . . had a very strong and swift motion, and shot through the water (or spittle) like a pike does through the water. The second sort. . .oft-times spun round like a top. . . and these were far more in number.”

1789
William Herschel discovers Mimas, a moon of Saturn.

1822
At the French Academie Royale des Inscriptions, Jean-François Champollion reads a paper, Lettre a M. Dacier, describing his solution to the mystery of the triple inscriptions of the Rosetta Stone which was unearthed by Napoleon’s army near the Rosetta branch of the Nile on July of 1799. Read more about the Rosetta Stone. Read the English translation of the Rosetta Stone.

1844
The first US patent is issued for a printing press with different colors of ink applied in one impression. (US No. 3,744) The inventor, Thomas F. Adams of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, calls the process “polychrome printing.” The process uses several ink fountains feeding different color rollers operated in parallel on the same axle, to produce stripes of different colors of ink.
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is,
almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

- The Other America by Michael Harrington, 1962.

Art

• ConceptShip is a blog devoted to really amazing spacecraft, with the occasional robot thrown in for good measure.
• These Steel Animals are fairly fascinating, though I’d appreciate a few friggin lasers.

Film

• Beer and Sci-Fi has an excellent list of Utopian and Dystopian Sci Fi Films, including a few oldies I’d never even heard of, and that’s saying something.
• The classic horror film The Thing is getting a Remake!
• Memorize this list of the Worst 20 Movie Sequels of All Time.
• Over at Soviet Delirus has picked out look-alikes for the the dream cast of a film version of Half-Life.
• Ten Guaranteed Sci-Fi Weepers? I’m not sure all of these reduced me to tears.

Internet

• Barack Obama as a Vulcan.
• The Twelve Weakest Deaths in Science Fiction has it dead-on, ending with Captain Kirk.

Literature

• Free Fiction: You can listen to “Bury the Carnival” by Simon Avery over at Transmissions From Beyond.
• You are stuck in your home for 5 years with no computer or TV. Choose your only reading material: The Bible, the Encyclopedia Britannica, Every Robert Heinlein novel, a stack of Playboys, or TIME magazine delivered each week while confined?

Television

• The promo for Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs: The Animated Series is online. It looks like its going to be a bit more risque than the original movie.

Video Games

• The Top 10 Hip-Hop Songs that Sampled a Video Game represent a surprisingly wide range of artists.

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