Monthly Archives: October 2010

I Can’t Decide Whether BBC America Should Live or Die

27th
Oct. × ’10
By Roderick

I caught “Last of the Time Lords” on BBC America last week – and they’d cut out the following scene! Now admittedly that scene doesn’t really advance the plot; but still, I would bet it’s the one scene that fans best love and remember from that episode. (Plot isn’t everything.) And of course BBC America [...]

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Four Bits of Science Fiction News

27th
Oct. × ’10
By Roderick

There’s a new Galactica series in the works, to take place between Caprica and BSG, featuring Ensign Bill Adama in the early years of the Cylon War. The next Star Trek movie will feature one of the following five original-series characters: Harry Mudd, Trelane, Gary Mitchell, the Talosians, or the Horta. I guess I’m hoping [...]

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Blaze the Oregon Trail

22nd
Oct. × ’10
By Roderick

Want to help send Charles Johnson under the banner of the Molinari Institute to preach Hayekian feminism to Marxian philosophers in the wilds of Oregon? Well, of course you do; it’s what you’ve been dreaming of all your life. Now you can.

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Steal This Course!

22nd
Oct. × ’10
By Roderick

Check out Stephan Kinsella’s upcoming course on intellectual property. See more info here and here.

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New Institute Instituted

22nd
Oct. × ’10
By Roderick

I’m pleased to announce that the Auburn Philosophy Department has created (or discovered, one of my colleagues argues) an Institute for Value and the Arts. We’ll be kicking off the Institute’s sure-to-be-illustrious career with a two-day conference on philosophy of law at the end of next week.

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Elementary, My Dear Bilbo

22nd
Oct. × ’10
By Roderick

Very good news! After announcing only the other day that he was turning down the role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit movie in order to return as Dr. Watson in Steven Moffat’s marvelous Sherlock series, Martin Freeman has apparently been cast as Bilbo after all – which strikes me as absolutely perfect [...]

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