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NEW! Future Kitchen

Another toothsome new section for Tales of Future Past:

Future Kitchen

Micro Nuclear Reactors

Toshiba announces that it is marketing micro nuclear reactors.

I'm definitely altering my plans to install a propane generator at Chez Szondy.

Raymond Burr, Commander Straker, Call Your Service

The Japanese Defence Minister claims that Japan's armed forces are inadequate to repel alien invasions-- by UFOs and Godzilla.

Broken Bulb Bureaucracy

From the Ministry for Wasting the Taxpayer's Money.

They'll be giving out directives on how to wipe our arses next-- after suitable official permission is obtained on the part of the wipee, of course.

Robby Christmas

If you're still doing your last minute Christmas shopping and have about ten grand to drop, then have a look at Fred Barton Productions for life size reproductions of Hollywood's most famous robots.

If I had a big enough house, I'd have the whole set lined up in the specially designed corridor leading to my office.

Elementary

New York Times headline:

The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Alive and Well

Doctor Watson was unavailable for comment.

Another Nail

Comedienne Jennifer Saunders is in talks to play Doctor Who in a one-off episode; the first time a woman has been cast in the role (not counting parodies).

According to the Sun,

TV bosses are keen to get a woman on board the Tardis for one of those shows.

Translation: We want fans of the show to know that we have no artistic integrity, we hold the character and format and their history in contempt, and that there is no depth to which we will not stoop for cheap, trendy "shock" value wherein we demonstrate nothing more profound than that we cannot differentiate between shock and flat-out bad taste. Oh, and we hate you all, too.

Design Flaw

This picture defines "back to the drawing board."

Dhimmitude in Minnesota

A tale of a Minnesota community college's "meditation room" morphing into a mosque complete with sex-segregated areas, literature that describes Christians and Jews as "enemies of Allah" and a college administration that refuses to investigate what it would never allow any other religion to do.

"Tolerance" is now synonymous with "cowardice", it seems.

The Mask Slips

A quote from Mayer Hillman, senior fellow emeritus at the Policy Studies Institute regarding global warming:

When the chips are down I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it. This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not.

It isn't often that the true face of these jumped-up little eco-Stalins is revealed so nakedly.

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur

Sir Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 today.

Sends video message telling kids to get off his lawn.

Tipped

The Spanish (Socialist) Economy Minister urges Spaniards not to tip too much.

Spanish waiters tell the Economy Minister what he can do with his urgings.

The Shadow Strikes

Were you bitterly disappointed by the 1994 version of The Shadow?

It could have been worse-- Far, far worse.

A Drama in Three Acts

Referendum? What Referendum

Gordon Brown signs the new EU constitution treaty. Joins fellow "leaders" in simultaneously giving away the shop and the people two fingers.

Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls

Back in the 1970s, Hammer Films planned a sci fi spic called Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls. Now, thanks to the wonder of the Internet, we have that long-lost film.

Kind of. Sort of. Not really. It's fun anyhow.

Vanishing Britons

The good news: British birth rates are above the replacement level.

The bad news: The British aren't the ones doing the breeding.

This century may see something historically unique happening in Britain and Europe; an entire civilisation quietly ceding its lands, its economy, its culture and its legacy to an alien people by default. Not through war or conquest, but through nothing more complicated than pure apathy and an unwillingness on the part of the people to perpetuate themselves.

Evolving News

BBC headline:

Human evolution is 'speeding up'

Prof. Xavier was unavailable for comment.

Three NEW Sections

Tales of Future Past proudly announces no less than THREE NEW sections:

• Future Cinema
  
• Death Rays
• Future Phones

Enjoy!