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The classic SF series Farscape is being re-released on DVD, this time with the entire series available in a single set:

The set will be launched at a panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and is being picked up by A&E Home Video. The set will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the show.

When a freak accident during an experimental space mission catapulted Astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder) across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield, a cult classic was born with the epic, adventure-filled TV series Farscape. The award-winning fan favorite show, which ran from 1999-2003 on Sci Fi and was named by TV Guide as one of television’s best cult shows ever, is about to blast off again on DVD courtesy of a pact between A&E Home Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company.

Here's a taste of the pilot episode…

Jet Cyclist Hits 73 MPH and Lives to Tell the Tale.

They're labelled for Windows 7, but these wallpapers will work with just about any operating system.

Teller, the quiet one in the magic team of Penn and Teller, explains how we are fooled by his art:

For Teller (that's his full legal name), magic is more than entertainment. He wants his tricks to reveal the everyday fraud of perception so that people become aware of the tension between what is and what seems to be. Our brains don't see everything—the world is too big, too full of stimuli. So the brain takes shortcuts, constructing a picture of reality with relatively simple algorithms for what things are supposed to look like. Magicians capitalize on those rules. "Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology," Teller says. "If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful. I've exploited the efficiencies of your mind."

Rich Morris has completed his magnum opus "The Ten Doctors", a 200-plus page comic strip story of Time Lord mayhem. It's all available for download.

It turns out that you don't need Photoshop to create amazing images. Here's just one…

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What the galaxy has been waiting for! Finally, an anti-virus program that has the true heart of a warrior!

Why did we translate it into Klingon?

Our routine monitoring of sub-space transmissions alerted Sophos that the loss of the Klingon battlecruiser Klothos was not due to Romulan incursion into the Khitomer system, but a result of trying to remove VBS/PeachyPDF-A from the battle computer using M'swoN'kar after Commander Kor opened an attachment from the system S'cam-419.

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Need to save some dough? (Who doesn't, right?) Here are 112 ways to be frugal.

Foodzie is "an online marketplace where you can discover and buy food directly from small passionate food producers and growers". You gotta love any place that sells pickled asparagus spears under the name "Whup Asp".

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A beautiful young lady of recent acquaintance tells me that she has a fondness for these industrious little fellows…

A master performs a classic…

Complaints Choirs are popping up all over the world, and well they should. The whole planet's going to hell in a handbasket. HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN, DAMMIT!!

"Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online document conversion interface that offers a large set of document conversions that can't be found anywhere else online. Its unique features include on the fly OCR conversion capabilities, over 50 different conversion options and proprietary XPS and PDF conversion abilities that retains formatting, images and text in the selected output format."

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