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Warning:BSG spoilers….
The Friday Battlestar Galactica half-season cliffhanger was fantastic, but the promise of the final five being revealed did not exactly happen, at lease not as it was being teased at the beginning of each episode. And they find Earth!!! But they have 10 more episodes in season 4.5, so there are plenty of loose [...]

Saturday: watched “Kung Fu Panda.” Sweetly funny, cute and exciting fight scenes. Not offensive as I was afraid it’d be (maybe because using furry animals helps avoid cultural stereotypes to some degree), and teaches some interesting little morals for the kids in the audience.
Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly’s at-large critic - and [...]

No, it’s not yet Sunday, but what a shock - the sad passing of Tim Russert. NBC/MSNBC pulling out a massive tribute. Our Sunday mornings will never be the same - “Meet the Press” without Russert? The rest of the presidential campaign without this man and the white board?
It seemed quite [...]

Still thinking about the World Science Festival. Sounded like it was a rousing success; NY Times’ Dennis Overbye gave a good report:
That was the World Science Festival in New York City this past weekend: 46 shows, debates, demonstrations and parties spread over five days and 22 sites between Harlem and Greenwich Village, organized by [...]

Ah, it’s hot, and I’m too sluggish to care about much.
Saturday - friend and I went to Brooklyn Botanic Garden and later saw the Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Loved the roses, hated the heat, and still bemused by the otaku / anime subcultures - and certainly a little uncomfortable about the erotic [...]